From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 4 21:53:30 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A44F316A4CE for ; Fri, 4 Feb 2005 21:53:30 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtphost.cis.strath.ac.uk (smtphost.cis.strath.ac.uk [130.159.196.96]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F260343D45 for ; Fri, 4 Feb 2005 21:53:29 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from chodgins@cis.strath.ac.uk) Received: from [192.168.0.4] (chrishodgins.force9.co.uk [84.92.20.141]) j14LrIak019749; Fri, 4 Feb 2005 21:53:18 GMT Message-ID: <4203EFE8.6060900@cis.strath.ac.uk> Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2005 21:58:00 +0000 From: Chris Hodgins User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20050204) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Chuck Swiger References: <200502042006.j14K6Ni1031241@mail5.atl.registeredsite.com> <4203DEE9.6080302@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <4203DEE9.6080302@mac.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-CIS-MailScanner-Information: Please contact support@cis.strath.ac.uk for more information X-CIS-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-CIS-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (score=0, required 6) X-CIS-MailScanner-From: chodgins@cis.strath.ac.uk cc: questions@freebsd.org cc: vandrewlevich@momsandkids.org Subject: Re: favor X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2005 21:53:30 -0000 Chuck Swiger wrote: > vandrewlevich@momsandkids.org wrote: > >> Hi FreeBSD. When googling my name, your list comes up 13 times because >> of a >> thread from 2003. Could you kindly remove and delete this thread from >> your >> archives? I would really appreciate it. >> Thanks, > > > Regrettably, there is no reliable or convenient way to remove old > postings from a public mailing list. Part of the issue is that you're > asking to remove not just your postings, but postings made by other > people in response to the questions you asked in that thread. > > Even if the FreeBSD postmaster (acting as list manager) did so and > rebuilt the Mailman thread archives manually, Google and other sites > which cache Usenet and public list traffic to their archives generally > retain information about old postings anyway. > Google does offer a way to remove posts that you have made from its index: http://www.google.co.uk/googlegroups/help.html#9 IANAL but I think it would be interesting to know what the legal implications are here. Could it be a legal requirement that you can request that your data is removed? Chris