Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2005 23:16:23 +0100 From: Gert Cuykens <gert.cuykens@gmail.com> To: "vandrewlevich@momsandkids.org" <vandrewlevich@momsandkids.org> Cc: Chris Hodgins <chodgins@cis.strath.ac.uk> Subject: Re: Re: favor Message-ID: <ef60af0905020414161488ae13@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200502042208.j14M8prU006203@mail5.atl.registeredsite.com> References: <200502042208.j14M8prU006203@mail5.atl.registeredsite.com>
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On Fri, 4 Feb 2005 17:08:51 -0500, vandrewlevich@momsandkids.org <vandrewlevich@momsandkids.org> wrote: > 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 > > Dont worry about it britney spears will always have more search hits then you :)
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