Mailinglist privacy: MY NAME ALL OVER GOOGLE!

[John Pettitt]

This news just in:

Fafa Hafiz Krantz a research designer at Barbershop in Norway (
http://www.home.no/barbershop ) has asked that his posts be removed for
all the archives of several public email lists.    The request sparked a
heated debate over the issue of copyright on email lists and raised
interesting questions about specifically opting in to having posts
archived.  As is typical in such debates few of the participants cited
any real evidence backing up their views and almost no attention was
paid to the jurisdictional issues created by international lists.

There was speculation that the request for deletion was prompted by the
posters political views as referenced in his email signature which
points to an article about middle east politics
http://www.home.no/barbershop/smart/sharon.pdf

With the debate he started Mr Krantz seems to have had ensured that his
name will live in archives for the foreseeable future, referenced in
articles such as this one which he has no copyright to and no control
over.   In the end the best strategy seems to be: if you don't want to
be quoted don't say anything.

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