Re: [ANNOUNCE] Git v2.0.0

From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Date: May 29, 2014, 19:23 UTC
Message-ID: <87tx88fkyt.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org>
In-Reply-To: <20140529185311.GB10865@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

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> On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 06:17:25PM -0500, Felipe Contreras wrote:
>
>> This is the last mail I sent to you, because you ignore them anyway, and
>> remove them from the mailing list.
>> [...]
>> [2], a mail you conveniently removed from the tracked record.
>> [...]
>> You also conveniently removed this mail from the archives.
>
> I see you already noticed the changes in v2.0, but I wanted to address
> these points, because I consider silent censorship to be a serious
> accusation.
>
> I do not think Junio or anyone else has the technical ability to remove
> messages from the archive.

You can post self-destructing messages by adding X-no-archive: yes if I am not mistaken. But that only concerns stuff you post yourself.

> There is not one archive, but rather several that get messages
> straight from vger.kernel.org and keep their own database (e.g.,
> gmane, marc, spinics, nabble).

Frankly, I find it weird that vger.kernel.org does not have an archive of its own. But yes, that makes it unlikely that silent censorship is much of a thing. A list moderator may put a particular sender on silent moderation, where postings will only appear once he has acknowledged them. However, that is a manual and burdensome process and requires an up-front decision to do so. Once a message made it to the list, the various archives will pick it up.

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David Kastrup