Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2006 12:03:51 -0800 From: Mark Space <markspace@sbcglobal.net> To: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> Cc: doc@freebsd.org, Gabriel Weinberg <yegg@alum.mit.edu> Subject: Re: Name Removal from your Web Site Message-ID: <43F8CF27.2000006@sbcglobal.net> In-Reply-To: <43F88928.6000200@mac.com> References: <1c624fe40602182215s4e79462eqb8fc7d70ab6aca58@mail.gmail.com> <43F88928.6000200@mac.com>
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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. > > >
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