[asterisk-dev] Deleting an inadvertent message

[Tilghman Lesher]

On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 12:22 PM, Jonathan Rose <jrose at digium.com> wrote:
> On Wednesday, June 13, 2012, Tilghman Lesher wrote:
>> On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 7:32 AM, Nick Khamis <symack at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > Is there any way we can delete the following message sent to
>> > asterisk
>> > ml, instead of the
>> > actual user please? I appologize for the inconvenience however, my
>> > personal info is in the
>> > email.
>> >
>> > http://markmail.org/message/gwhg4trnw4wei74k
>>
>> You do realize that:
>>
>> a) this is a mailing list, distributed far and wide;
>> b) mailing lists are archived in multiple places, and
>> c) we don't control most of the archives out there.
>>
>> You're basically asking for the Internet to be shut down and purged
>> of
>> your personal information, because you made a mistake.  Not going to
>> happen.  Learn to live with your mistakes.
>
> I think what he was requesting is that the email be removed from
> the list archives http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-dev/
> and not for them to be magically sucked out of people's inboxes
> using some proprietary Digium mad scientist created technology.
>
> I'm not sure if that's possible either, and I think the archives
> might even be mirrored elsewhere outside of Digium control.

There are multiple archives.  The one he referenced is outside of
Digium's control.  It would be possible, but utterly futile, to remove
them from Digium's own archive, so Kevin has always declined to do so
in the past.

-Tilghman