Matthew Toseland wrote: > On one prior occasion (this year), we have authorised a mailing list archive > site to remove messages posted by somebody. I have now had another mail > asking for us to remove somebody's name from two archives which we don't run > - which generally requires him asking them and getting authorisation from us > - and from our own archives. > > If this is to be a regular occurrence, we need to formulate some policy, and > IMHO the best way to do this is to discuss it here. Does anyone have an > opinion on this? I doubt very much that we have any legal obligation to > remove somebody's posts, especially as at least one of the other archive > sites will only remove messages with our say so, but I guess we could get > legal advice on it... Any opinions on the principle? IMHO rewriting history > to make yourself look good to employers is dubious, but at the same time we > clearly don't want to pick fights and unnecessarily annoy people.
but people repeatedly quote each other; i wouldn't've thought archive sites' software would be sufficiently advanced enough to remove all traces of them from their archive? IMO we should avoid removing entire messages, and encourage people to accept removal of their name & other traceable stuff only. if they insist, it's probably kind to remove everything, but I'm still surprised that this is technically feasible. X > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ Devl mailing list > Devl at freenetproject.org > http://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl
