On 13-09-12 9:40 AM, John Gonzalez wrote:
Dear subscribers of r-help,
I would like to know your opinion about a privacy problem that I recently had
after publishing to this list. Not a long time ago, I requested to the
administrators of this list that they removed 2 or 3 old posts from mine. These
posts were associating my name with an old company for which I worked a few
years ago when you would look up my real name at google. I'm 100% aware that
there are many mirrors of this list archive and that this is a hard work,
however my point was to move their google references to later pages so that new
people that look up my name would focus first on more recent work that I see as
more relevant for what I would like to do in the future.
This is the answer that I received from Mr. Winsemius:
I think you misunderstood his response. Your request is not possible.
The administrators of this list have no control over most of the sites
that archive it.
It's possible that you could approach those sites individually and ask
each one to remove its copy of your postings, but it is unreasonable to
expect the administrators of the list to do that for you, and honestly,
I suspect you'll be unsuccessful in having your old messages purged
completely. Your messages were public as soon as you sent them, and
it's very difficult to erase public records.
Duncan Murdoch
<<
Such a service is not available. Almost immediately rhelp postings are
replicated in multiple websites around the world. The information that you
could have (and should have) read at the time of signing up is here:
https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
... and the relevant sentence is:
"Posters should be aware that the R lists are /public/ discussion lists and
anything you post will be *archived and accessible* via several websites for many
years."
I followed up explaining that at that time I was too young to understand the
consequences of what I was doing and that, honestly, I didn't pay attention to
such a note. Mr. Winsemius didn't understand the reason of my request and
therefore decided to ignore it, even after asking a representative from the
company mentioned in my old posts to contact him to request the removal of such
posts.
At this point I feel completely powerless and disturbed that the administrators
of the r-help list refuse to remove a text that I decided a long time ago to
publish here. I don't think that they own the rights of what I wrote and I
wonder what I have done wrong to be disrespected in such a way.
Best regards,
John Gonzalez (pseudonym)
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