Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2009 15:16:56 -0400
From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>,
	pgsql-www@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Archives policy
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org> writes:
> > On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 7:29 PM, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> wrote:
> >> Altogether that page now reads like, our archiving system is too stupid to
> >> handle removals and we are too busy to bother.  Not sure if that will serve to
> >> convince people.  "Extremely difficult" is after all the same as "possible".
> 
> > Well that is essentially correct :-) Any suggestions for alternative text?
> 
> The really key point is the one about there being many copies of our
> archives that we have no control over, so asking us to remove our
> copy accomplishes nothing worth the complainant's trouble.  The rest is
> unlikely to deter anyone.

Complainant is of course free to pursue removal from the mirror
archives; and ours being the primary source, I think it's fair to say
that we agreeing that it should be removed makes it easier for them to
get them removed from the other sources.

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Alvaro Herrera                                http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
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