From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Feb 19 19:51:40 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: doc@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 238EF16A420 for ; Sun, 19 Feb 2006 19:51:40 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from markspace@sbcglobal.net) Received: from smtp104.sbc.mail.mud.yahoo.com (smtp104.sbc.mail.mud.yahoo.com [68.142.198.203]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A1D9D43D45 for ; Sun, 19 Feb 2006 19:51:39 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from markspace@sbcglobal.net) Received: (qmail 18261 invoked from network); 19 Feb 2006 19:51:39 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?10.0.0.11?) (markspace@sbcglobal.net@69.109.235.175 with plain) by smtp104.sbc.mail.mud.yahoo.com with SMTP; 19 Feb 2006 19:51:38 -0000 Message-ID: <43F8CF27.2000006@sbcglobal.net> Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2006 12:03:51 -0800 From: Mark Space User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en, ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Chuck Swiger References: <1c624fe40602182215s4e79462eqb8fc7d70ab6aca58@mail.gmail.com> <43F88928.6000200@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <43F88928.6000200@mac.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: doc@freebsd.org, Gabriel Weinberg Subject: Re: Name Removal from your Web Site X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2006 19:51:40 -0000 On the other hand, he raises an interesting point. Would it be possible to have the archive not record a person's email address publicly? I personally loathe spam, and I'm sure most people are against UBE sent to email addresses harvested from the internet. This could be a good feature for BSD software in general. Is anyone interested in investigating some code or configuration changes to make this happen? Chuck Swiger wrote: >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. > > >