# Unlist vs Archive

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/unlist-vs-archive/50994>\
**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [October 2, 2016, 8:45pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/unlist-vs-archive/50994 "2016-10-02T20:45:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![riking](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/riking/32/170938_2.png) [@riking](https://meta.discourse.org/u/riking)\
**Post date:** [October 5, 2016, 2:38am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/unlist-vs-archive/50994/5 "2016-10-05T02:38:59Z")

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> [@needhelp](#):
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> posted their telephone or email address in my forum

The canonical action when someone accidentally posts personal information is to edit the post, and redact the revision. Click on the “this post was edited” pencil and then the trash icon.

This doesn’t really help if it’s been up for a month, though.

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