From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 4 22:54:03 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 7069C16A4CE for ; Fri, 4 Feb 2005 22:54:03 +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 75ABB43D54 for ; Fri, 4 Feb 2005 22:54:02 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from chodgins@cis.strath.ac.uk) Received: from [192.168.0.4] (chrishodgins.force9.co.uk [84.92.20.141]) j14Mrqak021544; Fri, 4 Feb 2005 22:53:52 GMT Message-ID: <4203FE1B.2090005@cis.strath.ac.uk> Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2005 22:58:35 +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> <4203EFE8.6060900@cis.strath.ac.uk> <4203F65F.4080600@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <4203F65F.4080600@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 22:54:03 -0000 Chuck Swiger wrote: > Chris Hodgins wrote: > >> Chuck Swiger wrote: > > [ ... ] > >> Google does offer a way to remove posts that you have made from its >> index: >> >> http://www.google.co.uk/googlegroups/help.html#9 > > > Notice the part which says: > > "Messages posted by other people > > By its very nature, Usenet consists of information posted by many > people. Google does not monitor or control the content of this > information. Instead, we simply provide access to the public forum in > which people post their comments. > > Accordingly, if you are concerned about a message that someone has > posted, you need to resolve that problem directly with the person who > posted it. Except in extreme circumstances, Google will not act upon an > individual's request to remove another person's messages. We firmly > believe it is not Google's role to resolve disputes among the users who > have posted millions of messages on Usenet, nor would it be possible to > fulfill that role if we chose to undertake it." > >> 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? > > > 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 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 a public forum. > I like your analogy, I think that sums it up nicely. :) Chris