The whole purpose of Apache mailing lists is that the messages get indexed all over the web so that discussions and questions/solutions can be searched easily by google and other engines.
For this reason, and the messages being sent via email as Steve pointed out, it's just not possible to retract the messages. On Sat, Feb 6, 2016 at 10:21 AM, Steve Loughran <ste...@hortonworks.com> wrote: > > > On 5 Feb 2016, at 17:35, Marcelo Vanzin <van...@cloudera.com> wrote: > > > > You don't... just send a new one. > > > > On Fri, Feb 5, 2016 at 9:33 AM, swetha kasireddy > > <swethakasire...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> I want to edit/delete a message posted in Spark User List. How do I do > that? > >> > >> Thanks! > > > > > > > > it isn't technically possible > > http://apache.org/foundation/public-archives.html > > People do occasionally ask on the infrastructure mailing list to do do > this, but they aren't in a position to do anything about the copies that > end up in the mailboxes of every subscriber. > > Don't worry about it; we've all done things like post internal stack > traces, accidentally mail the wrong list, etc, etc. > > Now, accidentally breaking the nightly build of everything, that's > somewhat embarrassing —but you haven't done that and it's been ~4 months > since I've done that myself. > > > -Steve
