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[Andrew Collier]

Hello,

I would like to point out, for the avoidance of any ambiguity (and contrary to 
your comment on my web page) that I have have no connection with the gmane 
archive and I had no part in subscribing sam-users to the archive.

gmane will remove your previous messages on request, see 
http://gmane.org/expiry.php - emailing them is the quickest way to resolve the 
issue.


That said...

There have been archives of sam-users for about as long as sam-users itself 
has existed (indeed, the sam-users page on worldofsam mentions how and where 
to read them). Keeping archives is a perfectly normal part of the operation of 
a mailing list.

It is unfortunate that you weren't specifically asked about it, but then again 
you probably weren't asked for permission to redistribute the messages you 
post - it was taken as implicit in the normal operation of the list.

In general I think the archives are a useful resource. Now that you are aware 
they exist, you might choose to exclude your past and future messages; that's 
entirely your own decision, but I think it would be a shame if you decided 
that it was necessary.

Andrew

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