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If Google can do it, I'm sure FreeBSD can figure out how to do it.  Google calls it "nuking a post".  Any nukers with know-how out there?
 
> From: Chris Hodgins <chodgins@cis.strath.ac.uk>
> Date: 2005/02/04 Fri PM 04:58:00 EST
> To: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>
> CC: vandrewlevich@momsandkids.org,  questions@freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: favor
> 
> 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
>