FYI. Another case of files needing to be purged from PAUSE/CPAN/BackPAN. I'm not sure whether there should be a process for confirming "takedowns" or not.
-- David ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Charles Hamilton <chamil...@dyercpa.com> Date: Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 3:49 PM Subject: Re: [perl #99212] Breech of personal information on CPAN To: search...@cpan.org Cc: modu...@perl.org, gd...@dyercpa.com Graham, I really appreciate your help; I've found a few more copies of the file(s) that need to be removed: http://cpansearch.perl.org/src/LEOCHARRE/PDF-OCR2-1.10/t/problemdocs/problemdyerfile.pdf http://cpansearch.perl.org/src/LEOCHARRE/PDF-OCR2-1.09/t/leodocs/tuition.pdf http://cpansearch.perl.org/src/LEOCHARRE/PDF-OCR2-1.19/t/leodocs/tuition.pdf http://cpansearch.perl.org/src/LEOCHARRE/PDF-OCR2-1.20/t/leodocs/tuition.pdf I cannot thank you enough for helping us get this stuff taken care of. -c On Thu, 2011-09-15 at 09:22 -0700, Graham Barr via RT wrote: > I can, and have, removed the files served by cpansearch.perl.org, but the > distributions that contain the files will also need to be removed from that > users account. > > as CPAN gets mirrored all around finding all places it may exist may be > difficult. > > the source of all CPAN is PAUSE. contacting modu...@perl.org for removal will > get it removed from sites which faithfully mirror with deletes. > > once deleted from pause, there are 2 places I know of that mirror without > deletes. One is backpan.perl.org, which I can arrange to have them removed > from. The other I think is metacpan.org that you will need to contact. > > but it needs to be removed from pause first as anywhere that manually removes > it will have it reappear the next time the mirror software runs. > > Graham. > >
