[vox] Re: Everyone knows these lists are archived, right?

[Dan Willenbring]

We dealt with the same thing on the Twin Cities LUG mailing list.  One
particular person spent years trolling the list, upsetting people, making
outrageous statements.  They later found out that all this stuff popped up
when they (or their potential employer/girlfriend/mother/etc) punched
their name into Google.

I think it was decided that nothing be removed from the archives.  Doing
so would open the floodgates for similar such requests.

-- 
Dan Willenbring
www.omitted.net
dan@omitted.net


> Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2003 12:41:53 -0700
> From: Bill Kendrick <nbs@sonic.net>
> To: LUGOD <vox@lists.lugod.org>
> Subject: [vox] Everyone knows these lists are archived, right?
> Reply-To: vox@lists.lugod.org
>
>
> I just got a bizarre e-mail from someone who posted to our list months
> ago, complaining that their personal information (I guess name and
> e-mail?) are posted on our website.
>
> Well, yeah... that's what happens when you post to an archived mailing
> list.
>
>
> Anyway, what was more bizarre was that they claimed that we're being
> very insulting, rude and slanderous, and threatened further action if we
> don't remove their post.
>
> The thing is... the ONLY thing on our site was THEIR OWN POST TO THE
> MAILING LIST!  Hey, if they think their own post was rude and insulting
> (it wasn't), that's their opinion.  But that they made it out as if WE
> were responsible!