Historical note: This policy was inspired by a a similar policy instituted by Matt Mackall for the Mercurial project].

Information Disclosure Clean-up Policy

Sometimes people post confidential information to the mailing lists and then ask us to remove it. This is mostly pointless, as the mailing lists are mirrored by multiple third parties we have no control over. Furthermore, it is very time-consuming for the SQLite developers to try to isolate and remove archived information from the MailMan logs.

Therefore we have instituted the following information clean-up policy:

If you would like posts that you have submitted to any of SQLite's mailing list archives removed, then make a donatation of $100 to either the Software Freedom Conservancy or the Electronic Frontier Foundation (your choice) and send us the receipt for your donation together with the specific mailing list posts you want removed and the SQLite developers will then spend up to half an hour attempting to undo your mistake as far as possible. To reiterate: the SQLite mailing lists are mirrored by multiple third parties and so doing this will not remove your information from the internet.