Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2005 17:08:51 -0500 From: <vandrewlevich@momsandkids.org> To: Chris Hodgins <chodgins@cis.strath.ac.uk>, Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Re: favor Message-ID: <200502042208.j14M8prU006203@mail5.atl.registeredsite.com>
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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 >
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