On Saturday 13 June 2009 16:10:13 Zero3 wrote: > xor skrev: > > On Saturday 13 June 2009 00:24:01 Matthew Toseland wrote: > >> People sometimes write to me asking to be removed from mailing list > >> archives, usually to make themselves look better on Google. > >> > >> At the moment, removing from our archives involves quite a bit of work, and > >> an index rebuild (archives offline for 6 hours). However in the near future > >> we will get rid of emu, and it will be a matter of sending an email to the > >> external archive host, checking before/after, finding the messages, and > >> verifying that they are gone. In any case it can be quite disruptive. > >> > >> Ian has proposed the following policy: > >> We charge $150/hour for removing from mail archives. > >> Payment in advance, by paypal, based on an estimate. > >> There will be a minimum billing unit, nextgens suggests 1 hour, I suggest > >> 15 minutes. There is no warranty provided, but IMHO if we miss something > >> after taking payment and it is pointed out, we should fix it for free. IMHO > >> developers should not qualify. > >> > >> Agreed? Do we need a lawyer-approved contract text? > > > > IMHO our job is NOT to fight against windmills but to work on Freenet. > > Anyone who posts content on the internet should be aware of the fact that > > it > > is impossible to have it deleted, and we should make it clear to them if > > they > > do not understand it. > > > > Trying to delete content from the internet IS a waste of time, and because > > it > > is not our job, for us it is EVEN MORE of a waste. > > This is plain ironic, seeing that we are actually working on software > making stuff like this impossible. > > IMHO: Don't even consider this. Let history be history.
I'm inclined to agree, but we need a consensus. Is there any conceivable legal requirement for us to remove people's posts? I'm guessing not, as the third party archive sites only remove people's posts if we tell them to. Ian? -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 835 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part. URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20090613/fd90b210/attachment.pgp>
