I'll have a look. -- Sylvain
On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 09:33:15AM -0800, David Hill wrote: > 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 > -------- > David Hill, Prof. Emeritus, > gnuspeech list administrator > CS Dept, U. Calgary, > Calgary, AB T2N 1N4 Canada > > -------------------------------------- > > 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 >> --------------------------------------------- > > 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 > -------------- > David Hill > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/gnuspeech >
