I suspect that this is something you'll have to take up with mail-archive.com, which probably subscribes to the email list just as everybody else does, so already has the email, and will never "re-archive" the list.
Jay On Mon, 2 Dec 2002, pleaserespectmyprivacy wrote: > Dear PWS list members, > > A while back, I sent a personal email to Prof. Guzdial regarding my experience with >Swikis and asking for some help. He was kind enough to help me, but inadvertently >passed on the entire confidential email I sent him to this mailing list. Since this >mailing list is archived on the web, my full name and good email address are now >associated and published to the world at > > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg01663.html > > > which will give a hit to any search engine. I also wrote statements to him that I >never intended to make available to the world at large. I realize that people have >differing levels of comfort when it comes to privacy, but I would like to emphasize >that this kind of exposure disturbs me more than I will express here. I ask for some >consideration and assistance in removing at least my last name and email address from >this archive. I emailed Mark Guzdial and Jochen Rick about this, but they couldn't >help, and suggested I post here, which I'm doing from this anonymous email address. > > Is it possible for a search and replace to be done on my name and email to redact >them from this mailing list so that the next time mail-archive.com archives the list, >my personal and confidential information will be purged? This info would then >eventually fall out of the web's caching search engines. > > sincerely, > e.h. >
