Richard Masoner wrote:
> Have any other owners of archived lists had similar requests to remove
> archived email?
Yes, and I have refused all but one, referring to the mention of archives in
the list "welcome" message, and the tradition of archiving Internet mailing
lists. The one case where I did act (on one of my music lists) was where
someone had replied by accident to the list (thinking it was a private reply)
regarding a concert ticket or tape or something, and put her home address and
phone number in the message, and she cited some legitimate privacy concerns.
In a couple of other case people have claimed they would get fired or be in
big trouble, or whatever, but I talked them out of it. One guy actually made
a reasonable case, based on possible proprietary information from his company,
but when I looked in the archives (this was some days later) I realized that
his article had been replied to or quoted by literally dozens of other list
members (this was on the greatcircle.com Firewalls list). I was unwilling to
perform major surgery on the archives, and told hims that if it was a major
problem he should have someone in management or legal in his company call me,
and no one ever did, so I assume it wasn't that big a deal.
--
Michael C. Berch
mcb@postmodern.com / mcb@greatcircle.com
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