favor

[Gert Cuykens]

On Fri, 4 Feb 2005 17:08:51 -0500, vandrewlevich at momsandkids.org
<vandrewlevich at momsandkids.org> wrote:
> If Google can do it, I'm sure FreeBSD can figure out how to do it.  Google calls it "nuking a post".  Any nukers with know-how out there?
> 
> > From: Chris Hodgins <chodgins at cis.strath.ac.uk>
> > Date: 2005/02/04 Fri PM 04:58:00 EST
> > To: Chuck Swiger <cswiger at mac.com>
> > CC: vandrewlevich at momsandkids.org,  questions at freebsd.org
> > Subject: Re: favor
> >
> > Chuck Swiger wrote:
> > > vandrewlevich at momsandkids.org wrote:
> > >
> > >> Hi FreeBSD. When googling my name, your list comes up 13 times because
> > >> of a
> > >> thread from 2003. Could you kindly remove and delete this thread from
> > >> your
> > >> archives? I would really appreciate it.
> > >> Thanks,
> > >
> > >
> > > Regrettably, there is no reliable or convenient way to remove old
> > > postings from a public mailing list.  Part of the issue is that you're
> > > asking to remove not just your postings, but postings made by other
> > > people in response to the questions you asked in that thread.
> > >
> > > Even if the FreeBSD postmaster (acting as list manager) did so and
> > > rebuilt the Mailman thread archives manually, Google and other sites
> > > which cache Usenet and public list traffic to their archives generally
> > > retain information about old postings anyway.
> > >
> >
> > Google does offer a way to remove posts that you have made from its index:
> >
> > http://www.google.co.uk/googlegroups/help.html#9
> >
> > IANAL but I think it would be interesting to know what the legal
> > implications are here.  Could it be a legal requirement that you can
> > request that your data is removed?
> >
> > Chris
> >

Dont worry about it britney spears will always have more search hits then you :)