At 4:36 PM +0000 5/26/01, David E. Smith wrote:
>On Sat, 26 May 2001, Alia Johnson wrote:
>
>> I'm writing because I notice on Google a message I sent to this address is
>> now posted in some directory that results in that message coming up when
>> my name is searched on Google. Is there any way to undo this?
>
>Only if you can convince everyone who has public archives of cypherpunks
>to remove your posts (i.e. it's not gonna happen)
>
And removing Alia Johnson's posts would not do much, as all of the
posts which mentioned her name or which quoted her messages would
still pop up. Sometimes these secondary messages are far more
troublesome anyway.
To purge Alia Johnson's messages from the various archives would also
purge messages from David Smith, me, and dozens of others. We know
what that triggers...
And, of course, the Cypherpunks list is on CD-ROMs, some of which get
copied over to searchable archives when someone feels motivated to
make the archives available on his site.
Fact is, once something is widely dispersed, it is widely dispersed.
I wouldn't be surprised, though, to see the usual statists in Europe
and here proposing laws which protect "a person's right to their
name" or somesuch folderol.
--Tim May
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Timothy C. May [EMAIL PROTECTED] Corralitos, California
Political: Co-founder Cypherpunks/crypto anarchy/Cyphernomicon
Technical: physics/soft errors/Smalltalk/Squeak/agents/games/Go
Personal: b.1951/UCSB/Intel '74-'86/retired/investor/motorcycles/guns
