Can I remove a particular archive from the list?

As a list administrator, do I have any option to remove any particular post from the archive of all messages? Please share how to do this.
Thanks,
Amit Bhatt

Richard Damon writes:
Yes, that's exactly the procedure. However, this will cause all posts after that message to change URLs. You have some hope of preserving URLs (which may have been communicated as references on the mailing list or in private mail, etc) if you edit the mail in the mbox file, substituting a fake address in the Unix From line that starts a message, removing all but the required From, Date, and Message-Id header fieldss and substituting a fake name and address in From and a local id in Message-Id, and replacing the entire message body with the sentence "This message was removed by the administrator". Then regenerate the archives.
This could actually be automated fairly easily I suppose, but I don't know if it's a great idea.

I used the instructions in the FAQ a while back, which worked fine: http://wiki.list.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=4030681
Best wishes
Jon

Richard Damon writes:
Yes, that's exactly the procedure. However, this will cause all posts after that message to change URLs. You have some hope of preserving URLs (which may have been communicated as references on the mailing list or in private mail, etc) if you edit the mail in the mbox file, substituting a fake address in the Unix From line that starts a message, removing all but the required From, Date, and Message-Id header fieldss and substituting a fake name and address in From and a local id in Message-Id, and replacing the entire message body with the sentence "This message was removed by the administrator". Then regenerate the archives.
This could actually be automated fairly easily I suppose, but I don't know if it's a great idea.

I used the instructions in the FAQ a while back, which worked fine: http://wiki.list.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=4030681
Best wishes
Jon
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