On Tuesday 26 May 2009 00:56:22 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. >
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