[dundee] Dundee Mailing List

[Rick Moynihan]

I sympathise a lot with the desire for personal privacy; and find it a
shame that in modern society one can easily become a hostage to
Google, Facebook and perhaps a LUG mailing list - which might have
captured embarassing or non-representative deeds online.

This said the mailing list is a public forum, and one must acknowledge
that posting here is a public record announcement, and a matter of the
public record.  All too often people neglect these facts, and come to
regret prior postings.  I am particularly concerned for children and
adolescents today who will face a future where even their non-adult
lives are open to scrutiny 20, 30, 50, 100 years hence.

I can offer some advice in these situations:

- Bury the 'bad content' by producing more relevant & insightful
comments; which show you in a better light.
- Always be cautious when hitting send.
- It's probably nowhere near as bad as you think it is.

I should point out that I have no idea what the post is; nor an
inclining to find out... and that there may be other reasons to
request deletion of a post.

I don't know what other members think, but I'd eer on the side of NOT
removing the post; unless there are exceptional circumstances ... e.g.
if the post accidentally contained personal bank details.  The reason
being, I'd hate to set a precedence for other requests; it's a mailing
list, it's public, and archived, behave accordingly.

This said, if you (Gordon) thought that the request was reasonable and
did warrant censoring; I'd have no astronomical objection to the post
being removed.

R.

On 18 April 2011 10:18, gordon dunlop <zubenel at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> I have just had a request from a member of this list to delete a post from
> October 2010 on the grounds of anonymity. I had to explain that the Dundee
> LUG's policy on the mail archives are that they are open to all. The lurker
> database on the TayLUG website is a searchable database of the mail archives
> where the email addresses of posters are hidden. I would also like to remind
> people to bear this in mind if adding your address, telephone number,
> twitter & facebook links to your post. I would appreciate any feedback from
> people on this issue.
>
> Gordon
>
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