For the risk of being yelled at for being irrelevant, I'll exploit the opportunity this story will be archived for time immemorial.
As the story goes ... Once upon a time, there was a rich trader who lived in a huge house who had a poor neighbour living in a tiny house just behind the rich trader's kitchen. For every of holy days or when the trader threw a banquet the rich scents and odour of the kitchen would permeate into the poor neighbour's living room cum kitchen cum pantry cum occasional guest bedroom. Despite all the rich food, the trader felt lethargic and frail and never had a good day. Once in a blue moon she had the chance to meet her poor neighbour. Actually, it was the converse - the poor neighbour might chance upon meeting the trader. For this particular blue moon, the trader was especially irritated and so when she saw the happy and healthy countenance of her poor neighbour she became extremely annoyed. "What reason for thy fumbling and demeaning expressing of joy and unbounded appearance of health? What measure of food my servants might have smuggled thee and which case I would consider theft?" "Nay. Surely not." Said the poor neighbour. "For it is thine own generosity from which did I benefit." "Excellent. What then shalt thou consider as recompense for this benefit which thou hast unreasonably taken from me without my prior adjudging or deliberation?" "I have not any means to pay thee nor any meaning to pay for scents and odour that waft into my abode without my prior consideration or deliberation." "Nay so, for if my pet cat or dog wafted into thine household without thy prior consideration or deliberation, shouldest thou not return them each in one piece and alive rather than consume them for thy personal culinary and nutritional benefit? So return me my scents and odours." She demanded. "Nay too, as if it came to that situation, I would have none of any resources to recapture thy pets unless thou provided the man-, woman- or person-power to capture the pets for thyself and recompense me for the trespass of thy wafty entities as well as the trespass of those whom thou wouldest send to recapture thy privacy." Years passed with many friends and relatives as well as unsolicited strangers wafting into the poor neighbour's house to enjoy the rich waft of the rich trader's kichen. So it came to pass that the neighbours chanced upon another blue moon. "Thou has yet to recapture my assets that had wafted into thine household. But I shall forgive and forget and hold you no more responsible for their recapture. But I understand not why thee and thy many friends exude such countenance of health and happiness. For I have had for many years no more feasts nor festivities from which thou nor thy equally poor friends could benefit." "You forget we have memory. For the good scents and odours have been archived in our memory and whenever we think about them we become unboundlessly joyous and happy." "I entreat thee to erase such memory from thy archive for it is my privacy that thou art accessing each time you recall those scents and odours. That is the least thou shouldest have done for me." "What about the scents archived in the memories of my myriad of friends and relatives? Even if I could erase my memory off thy privacy but I retain no means nor such authority to erase thy supposed assets off my friends and relatives." On hearing that, the rich trader walked away, feeling more and more discouraged about the loss of her privacy that had leaked into her neighbourhood. "Is this how y'all should treat me for the benefit I have given y'all?" ~(Copyleft BlessedGeek.com 2006/01/05). ====================================================== -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Rainer Luxus Sent: Wed, January 04, 2006 5:59 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Removal or anonymization of a posting Dear receiver, 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. Please don't let me hang! Best regards Rainer ___________________________________________________________ Telefonate ohne weitere Kosten vom PC zum PC: http://messenger.yahoo.de -- 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/ -- 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/
