Re: [R] Re : Privacy rights of an old user of this list

2013-09-21 Thread Uwe Ligges
The locations where the mailing list are archived are not even controlled by any member of R-core or the R foundation. Everybody, including John, could collect mails from the list and publish them. This is a well known property of a public mailing list. Uwe Ligges On 17.09.2013 13:29, Adan

Re: [R] Re : Privacy rights of an old user of this list

2013-09-21 Thread Rainer M Krug
If you say something inn public, it will be there and people may remember it - you can't take back what you said. So why is a mailing list different? it is just that we are typing instead of talking - it goes into the public and there it stays. Ever heard of the Streisand effect

[R] Re : Privacy rights of an old user of this list

2013-09-17 Thread John Gonzalez
I would like to thank David for letting me publish this and discuss it openly. I must acknowledge from the answers that I received to my post, that the administrators of this list are doing what seems to be fair to me: what most people demand or understand that is right. However I don't share

Re: [R] Re : Privacy rights of an old user of this list

2013-09-17 Thread Adan Leobardo Martinez Cruz
Dear all, I will express my opinion without knowing the details of the posts John would like to be removed. In the current state, people posting on this and other servers have no clear way to go when trying to remove their posts. It is a likely event that the number of people attempting the