Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 15:57:57 -0800 From: Bill Campbell <freebsd@celestial.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: please remove all search results with name Constantin Stalzer Message-ID: <20090210235757.GA25158@ayn.mi.celestial.com> In-Reply-To: <20090210233640.GA70071@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> References: <1115427411@web.de> <e9da18930902101329y7deff92bj692d57f39fcdd1dc@mail.gmail.com> <20090210233640.GA70071@gizmo.acns.msu.edu>
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On Tue, Feb 10, 2009, Jerry McAllister wrote: >On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 01:29:34PM -0800, Chris Knight wrote: > >> Damn, that is the funniest thing I have seen in years. > >You might try posting a helpful response instead of trying >to be insulting. > >You might explain to the person, who apparently does not understand >the net, that it would be impossible to remove all references with >his name because within minutes of it being posted to the list >it is mirrored and archived in many many places over which the list >manager has no control - in fact does not even know about. One example >of those is Google. FreeBSD has no control over what Google stores. >But, there are many other sites that input this stuff, mung it according >to their interests and make it available on the net. Many years ago we hosted the original CDDB database (identifies music CDs), and I got at least one complaint from somebody whose name appeared in a song title saying to remove it or else. I have had people ask to remove things from the Mailman archives of lists we host, who backed off when I asked for my normal hourly rate to (a) figure out how pipermail works, and (b) deal with removing their messages. I added that there are hundreds of people receiving these messages around the world who may have them archived as well, not to mention google. I never heard from them again. Bill -- INTERNET: bill@celestial.com Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way Voice: (206) 236-1676 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820 Fax: (206) 232-9186 The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship. -- Robert Heinlein
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