At 8:01 PM +0100 5/26/01, Anthony Naggs wrote:
>In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Alia
>Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
>>
>>Hello
>
>Hi
>
>>I'm writing because I notice on Google a message I sent to this address is
>>now posted in some directory that results in that message coming up when
>>my name is searched on
>>Google. Is there any way to undo this?
>
>You have copyright in any message you post, so you could ask the website
>owners to remove the messages.
She posted to a list with a long history. Sure, she could "ask."
But she gave up any enforceable contract by posting to such a list,
domiciled in a dozen countries and so on.
>You could resort to law, but that is
>generally expensive and has little effect on people in other
>jurisdictions.
Yes, and we could recycle some Toto messages and threaten to kill her.
So?
--Tim May
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Timothy C. May [EMAIL PROTECTED] Corralitos, California
Political: Co-founder Cypherpunks/crypto anarchy/Cyphernomicon
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