[R] Privacy rights of an old user of this list

[Jeff Newmiller]

Not only are you asking the administrators of an email list to alter data stored on systems other than the ones they control, you are suggesting that they can somehow alter search records stored in Google's servers. At best you are naive. That does not mean you are the only person with such regrets... just that the toothpaste is out of the tube and you still haven't learned from your mistakes. I imagine you may still need to learn that there are scammers out there willing to take large amounts of money from you to "fix" things like this. Keep learning!
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John Gonzalez <John.Gonzalez at gmx.fr> wrote:
>Dear subscribers of r-help,
>I would like to know your opinion about a privacy problem that I
>recently had after publishing to this list. Not a long time ago, I
>requested to the administrators of this list that they removed 2 or 3
>old posts from mine. These posts were associating my name with an old
>company for which I worked a few years ago when you would look up my
>real name at google. I'm 100% aware that there are many mirrors of this
>list archive and that this is a hard work, however my point was to move
>their google references to later pages so that new people that look up
>my name would focus first on more recent work that I see as more
>relevant for what I would like to do in the future.
>This is the answer that I received from Mr. Winsemius:
><<
>Such a service is not available. Almost immediately rhelp postings are
>replicated in multiple websites around the world. The information that
>you could have (and should have) read at the time of signing up is
>here: 
>
>https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help 
>
>... and the relevant sentence is:
>
>"Posters should be aware that the R lists are  /public/ discussion
>lists and anything you post will be  *archived and accessible* via
>several websites for many years."
>>>
>I followed up explaining that at that time I was too young to
>understand the consequences of what I was doing and that, honestly, I
>didn't pay attention to such a note. Mr. Winsemius didn't understand
>the reason of my request and therefore decided to ignore it, even after
>asking a representative from the company mentioned in my old posts to
>contact him to request the removal of such posts.
>At this point I feel completely powerless and disturbed that the
>administrators of the r-help list refuse to remove a text that I
>decided a long time ago to publish here. I don't think that they own
>the rights of what I wrote and I wonder what I have done wrong to be
>disrespected in such a way.
>Best regards,
>John Gonzalez (pseudonym)
>
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