Rainer Luxus wrote: > it's now for many years that I find a certain posting > in the cygwin xfree archive associated with my name > and (office) email address when I'm looking for my > name with the GOOGLE search engine. > > I have accepted this for the elapsed time for the sake > of other users that might have found help in the > answer to my question. (But I was never happy with it > and I did never agree to this practice at all.) > > Now more than 3 years later I can't see any benefit in > this posting and so I want to ask you to remove or at > least anonymize it (and change the file name!!!) > > I'm talking about the following posting: > http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2002-11/msg00202.html > > Internet, news groups and so on are a great thing but > only in conjunction with a careful handling of > personal data, privacy etc. I hope you understand my > petition and spend those 10 minutes to erase my > personal data from the archive.
I think you need to accept that any information posted to a public mailing list is... public. That is just the way it is, as is clearly stated at the top of <http://sourceware.org/lists.html>. There is zero expectation of privacy when posting to a public list. Furthermore, these lists are archived in many places (marc.theaimsgroup.com, mail-archive.com, gmane.com, etc) and so even if someone removed your post from sourceware it would still exist in those other places. Brian -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/
