[aclug-L] Personal privacy (was: Re: Re: Help Please)

[Greg House <ghouse@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

As Tom says, discussion@xxxxxxxxx is a public mailing list operated by the 
Air Capitol Linux Users Group (aclug). Anything sent to it is considered 
public and is archived at http://www.complete.org/mailinglists/archives
for future reference. John Goerzen is the adminstrator, even though he is no 
longer active on the list. If you contact him directly 
(jgoerzen@xxxxxxxxxxxx), perhaps he'll remove your post from the archive.

But...as Tom also implied, what's the point? In the words of Scott McNealy, 
"You have zero privacy anyway. Get over it."  (ref:  
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,17538,00.html)

There's another interesting article on this topic here: 
http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A89273-2001May28.html

Greg


On Wednesday 06 June 2001 14:12, you wrote:
> Robert Park wrote:
> >  Hello,
> >        I have no idea but i emailed some who goes by
> > Maverick and aclug was in the address, I lost his
> > address and i searched at google For Help with an
> > epson stlus collor 400 printer....(I found his address
> > that way but i found that my info which i included in
> > the message to HIM not EVERYBODY is posted. Check
> > google until you find mine (NAME IS ROBERT PARK IT
> > SAYS IT IN DESCRIPTION) It says something about aclug
> > conversation..........What is it? And i didn't know it
> > would be post up So if i did i wouldn't say stuff
> > about me. If it is in your power Please i mean PLEASE
> > try to take it down.       Thank you for your time,
> > E-mailme back.
>
> It looks like discussion@xxxxxxxxx is being archived under
>
>   http://arch.freeciv.org/
>
> This looks like John Goerzen's web site, so he can address
> the feasibility of purging the archive, but MHO is that
> this archive is a good thing, and should not be tampered
> with.
>
> In general, you should expect that anything you send to
> a public mailing list is in fact public, and edit yourself
> accordingly. Also, when responding to email, pay some
> attention to who else you pick up when you "Reply All" --
> if you don't know who you're writing to, you should
> consider dropping them from the cc list.
>
> Following you suggestion, I searched Google for "robert
> park", and your posting did not appear to be in the first
> screenful of the 1,500,000 matches. I really doubt that
> many people will search through this mass to discover
> your personal information, or even much care.

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