[Mailman-Developers] Support for X-No-Archive

[Andrew Daviel]

This is probably a case of beating a dead horse after everyone switched to 
automobiles, but nevertheless:

We had an occasion where some private information got forwarded to a 
public mailing list and then got found by a search engine. Probably 
happens all the time.
At least one of these messages had some boilerplate on the bottom saying 
"may be confidential, do not forward" etc.

Computers are better than people at reading boilerplate. It would be nice 
if there was some way to flag a message "do not archive", or even "do not 
forward" so that a user would have to do something to override that.
I found "X-No-Archive" in wikipedia that was apparently honored by google 
when archiving usenet.

In an ideal world hundreds of people would immediately agree that this was 
an excellent idea, get an RFC written, and everyone would implement it by 
next year. Not going to happen, I know.

I wondered if this had been done already somehow, or considered and shot 
down, and how others handle the problem.


-- 
Andrew Daviel, TRIUMF, Canada
Tel. +1 (604) 222-7376  (Pacific Time)