Re: [sr #110479] Two different archives for the same mailing list

[Ian Kelling]

T. E. Kalayci <tekrei@tutanota.com> writes:

> Hello Amin,
>
> Problem was the following:
>
>
>> At 30 April 2021, a member at www-tr communication list [1] had an incident, 
>> they forwarded a welcome mail to the list itself [2]. And unfortunately 
>> password is visible in this email. I asked the following questions to the 
>> mailman@gnu.org regarding this incident:
>>
>> - Is it possible to delete this email [2] from list archive? (I currently 
>> made the archive private)
>>
>> - Is it possible to hide such information in case of replied/forwarded? (I 
>> put a warning to the beginning of e-mails containing passwords in the 
>> templates)
>>
>> [1] > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/www-tr-comm
>> [2] > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/www-tr-comm/2021-04/msg00012.html
>>
> I received a response suggesting that "just changing the password for that 
> user and then the
> mail being in the archive wouldn't hurt anything" (but without mentioning the 
> possibility of deleting message). So, making the archive private was a 
> temporary solution to give some time to the user in case that they are using 
> the same password in other services. 
>
> Now I changed the settings back to the public, is it possible merge private 
> archive to the public archive?
>

Yes, it is possible. But I'm not sure how much work it is. Please email
sysadmin@fsf.org asking for it to be done.

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