Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2005 21:58:00 +0000 From: Chris Hodgins <chodgins@cis.strath.ac.uk> To: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> Cc: vandrewlevich@momsandkids.org Subject: Re: favor Message-ID: <4203EFE8.6060900@cis.strath.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <4203DEE9.6080302@mac.com> References: <200502042006.j14K6Ni1031241@mail5.atl.registeredsite.com> <4203DEE9.6080302@mac.com>
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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
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