Comment 1 for bug 471274

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Barry Warsaw (barry) wrote : Re: Purging a mailing list doesn't purge the archives

This is working as designed. Since the vast majority of mailing lists are public, and we never want to delete the public record, we purposefully do not ever delete archives.

A valid wishlist might be:

Provide an option to delete a mailing list's archive through the user interface. This option should only be made available to mailing-list-experts.