On Tue, Feb 10, 2009, Jerry McAllister wrote: >On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 01:29:34PM -0800, Chris Knight wrote: > >> Damn, that is the funniest thing I have seen in years. > >You might try posting a helpful response instead of trying >to be insulting. > >You might explain to the person, who apparently does not understand >the net, that it would be impossible to remove all references with >his name because within minutes of it being posted to the list >it is mirrored and archived in many many places over which the list >manager has no control - in fact does not even know about. One example >of those is Google. FreeBSD has no control over what Google stores. >But, there are many other sites that input this stuff, mung it according >to their interests and make it available on the net.
Many years ago we hosted the original CDDB database (identifies music CDs), and I got at least one complaint from somebody whose name appeared in a song title saying to remove it or else. I have had people ask to remove things from the Mailman archives of lists we host, who backed off when I asked for my normal hourly rate to (a) figure out how pipermail works, and (b) deal with removing their messages. I added that there are hundreds of people receiving these messages around the world who may have them archived as well, not to mention google. I never heard from them again. Bill -- INTERNET: b...@celestial.com Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way Voice: (206) 236-1676 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820 Fax: (206) 232-9186 The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship. -- Robert Heinlein _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"