{groups} [HPFGU-Catalogue] Re: Heidi's comments

[Paul Kippes]

Man, I should read the entire post first--my name kept popping up in
that last one.

First, a definition.  The database we're using for the Catalog will
contain all posts in their original, unaltered form.  Even if a person
requests the post to be deleted, it won't be
wipe-the-slate-clean-no-holds-barred deleted.  (I'd prefer the term
restricted rather than deleted.)  But its content won't be searchable.
 My understanding is that we can insert our own text either
summarizing the post or the subject of the post.

I've pretty much planned on having an "edited" view of all the posts
that would be data we've either cleaned up, cut up, or altered.  At
the moment, every post is somehow converted on-the-fly into the view
we all see.  I can eliminated this extra processing step while at the
same time support these legal hoops.

So, yes.  We can easily identify deleted posts since they will still
be in the system and only have a flag specifying that it is a
restricted post.  At same time, I'll probably have a reason code for
why the original post was removed.

Will we be doing two things:  1) Removing posts and 2) replacing
rewording posts with summary content?  Or just removing.