Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2006 10:05:12 -0500 From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: Gabriel Weinberg <yegg@alum.mit.edu> Cc: doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Name Removal from your Web Site Message-ID: <43F88928.6000200@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <1c624fe40602182215s4e79462eqb8fc7d70ab6aca58@mail.gmail.com> References: <1c624fe40602182215s4e79462eqb8fc7d70ab6aca58@mail.gmail.com>
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Gabriel Weinberg wrote: [ ... ] > I would like my name and all the information associated with it to > be immediately removed for personal privacy reasons. Please confirm > when this is done by replying to this message. I'm sorry, but what you're asking for is impractical. The situation is analogous to writing a letter to a newspaper, having it printed in the op/ed section, and then you asking your local library to discard the entire editoral section for that day. Even if the library were to agree, there were thousands of other copies made and the neighboring towns very probably all have copies of that day's paper in their library archives, as well, so what's the point? A newspaper doesn't have any legal obligation to hunt down and remove all of the copies of their paper which contain the letter you wrote. Likewise, if you don't want your name to appear in the archive of a public forum, don't send content to that public forum. -- -Chuck
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