Re: bug#11967: Bug in "uniq"

[Glenn Morris]

Eric Blake wrote:

> Sorry, I'm afraid this probably isn't feasible.  To begin with, I'm not
> the website admin, so I have no personal control over this.
>
> You can try asking help-debbugs (cc'd), but I suspect the answer is
> still the same, in that we do not have the capability for removing
> things that have already been publicly archived, except possibly in the
> case of marking blatant attempts at spam or spreading a virus.

It's trivial for me to remove whole reports from debbugs.gnu.org.
I can do that in this case if the coreutils maintainers want me to.
(Or I can obscure the email address totally if that was the issue.)

However as you say:

>  And even if the sysadmin for the GNU debbugs instance is able to
> successfully hide your reports on the debbugs.gnu.org pages, your
> email has already been archived on numerous other sites, such as:

so it all seems rather pointless to me.