On Sep 12, 2013, at 8:40 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:
If you would use an honorific, it would be "Dr." I generally use
'David', however.
<<
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
I have no memory of incompetence by virtue of young age being offered
as the basis for the request. My memory regarding the basis for the
request was a desire not to be associated with the the domain name of
the company in question because of a claim that they had used
unethical practices. I determined with a Google search that there
were multiple other sources of that information on various websites.
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.
If motive for not pursuing the issue, rather than policy and
feasibility, is being questioned, it's more that I didn't see the
reason (the originally alleged reason, not the recently revised
argument) as compelling. There are a quite a few of my postings to
newsgroups that I wouldn't mind seeing disappear and even a few on the
Rhelp archives. I just don't think that my errors in judgment or
knowledge deserve to be ignored. My hope is that I am judged on the
balance of useful versus boneheaded.
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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David Winsemius, MD
Alameda, CA, USA
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