Re: Re: favor
vandrewlevich_at_momsandkids.org
Date: 02/04/05
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To: Chris Hodgins <chodgins@cis.strath.ac.uk>, Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2005 17:08:51 -0500
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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