Dear Savannah Hackers,
There is an ongoing problem with one of our posters to the gnuspeech
mail archive and I do not seem to have any means to resolve the problem.
Basically, Vikas Shivpuriya of the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
posted an email to the list with all his personal contact details on
June 17th 2007 and I accepted it, so it was distributed on June
19th. Some time later he has started asking me to remove this
personal information because a number of other sites are picking it
up and republishing it.
I attach a copy of the email I have just sent to him on the matter.
I think it is self-explanatory and puts you in the picture. I have
made it clear that we have nothing to do with the other lists he
mentions, but it will obviously be an ongoing problem if the
information remains on the gnuspeech mail archive as anyone can pick
up the same information from the archive.
I would be most grateful if you could remove his personal details
(address, phone numbers & email address) from the original posting
to the gnuspeech list (June 17 2007).
Please let me know what can be/has been done.
Many thanks.
david
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David Hill, Prof. Emeritus,
gnuspeech list administrator
CS Dept, U. Calgary,
Calgary, AB T2N 1N4 Canada
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Dear Vikas,
On Dec 6, 2007, at 10:50 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi David Hill,
Greetings.
Can you please remove my contact details from the web posting at link
http://www.nabble.com/Hi-t3950183.html
You have take similar action on my posting at the link
http://www.nabble.com/Removal-of-my-posting-openSubscriber-
t4405870.html
I do not want to share my professional or contact details on open
forum at Nabble.com. Please do the needful as the earliest.
Regards
-Vikas
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Earlier vikas wrote:
Remove personal confidential content from your website site -
www.opensubscriber.com
Hi,
I have some communication with gnuspeech that is displaying on
www.opensubscriber.com
http://www.opensubscriber.com/message/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/
6963441.html
This contains all my personal and business information that I do
not wish to display on internet google search. You are displaying
al the content that I wrote to gnuspeech, on your website without
having consent of me or gnuspeech.
I request you to remove this webpage from your site as it contains
my personal information (name,address,phone nos) that I do not want
to publish on your website.
Regards
-Vikas
Reply
Forward
By posting to the gnuspeech site, as a non-member, you are asking for
your post to be accepted. When the post is accepted, you normally
become a member and the email you sent is added to the list archives,
and is available to all those who visit them. My role is only to
make sure that material sent by spammers, or other unsuitable emails
sent by non-members is kept off the list.
You are asking me to remove the reposted details from both the
opensubscriber.com and nabble .com sites.
I have *absolutely nothing* to do with the "nabble.com" site or the
"opensubscriber.com" site, nor are they (AFAIK) anything to do with
gnu or savannah. I have done some Googling and found that the
nabble.com site is supposedly run by:
Weizhen Lin
PO Box 99800
EmeryVille, CA
94662
US
Phone: +1 510 595 2002
contact [at] myprivateregistration.com
(URL for this information is: http://www.alexa.com/data/details/main/
nabble.com )
The opensubscriber.com site is supposedly run by:
Aaron Hughes
Phone: +61 041 893 0431
aaron [at] diezmil.com
(URL for this information is: http://www.alexa.com/data/details/main/
opensubscriber.com )
It is those companies that you will have to contact to have that
listing of your personal details removed from their sites. As I say,
I have nothing to do with those sites, and cannot change or dictate
what they have posted. I was unaware of either site until you
brought them to my attention. I notice that nabble reproduces
information from many gnu sites, but that is only a small part of
what they seem to do. I have no idea why they would do this.
The gnuspeech list site to which you originally posted is a semi-
public site and it is not possible to stop other people from
accessing the site, collecting information on the site, and reposting
it on their own sites. Non-members accessing the gnuspeech site
cannot see the senders' email addresses, but they *can* see the
content of messages. You put your personal detail in the message
itself. As I told the last time you contacted me, once you have
posted a message it has been put in the public domain. Your mistake
was in posting all your personal information on a site to which the
public have access. My only role with the gnuspeech site is to
reject non-legitimate postings (e.g. from spammers). The gnu
savannah hackers run the site, not me. I will bring your request to
their attention in the hope they can remove the personal information
from your original posting, something I can find no way to do.
But there is always the problem that other sites may have collected
your information; and even with the opensubscriber.com and nabble.com
sites, there will be Google archives, no doubt.
Good luck with your quest to remove your information from the nabble
& opensubscriber sites.
All good wishes.
david
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David Hill
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/gnuspeech
