Re: [OT] New Anti-Terrorism Law makes "hacking" punishable by life in prison

[jmerkey <jmerkey@utah-nac.org>]

It's in the archives now, so the purpose is served. The sociopaths using 
the parent thread have just lost their toy.

J

Jesper Juhl wrote:

> On 7/2/05, jmerkey <jmerkey@utah-nac.org> wrote:
>  
>
> > OK.  I ask for this thread and associated posts to be removed, is this
> > is allowed.  The Provo Daily Herald and KSL Channel 5
> > news asked me questions about it.  I did not author it.
> >
> >    
> [...]
>
> I'd say that that request is damn near impossible. First of all, as
> Randy has already pointet out kernel.org does not maintain email
> archives, secondly, the thread will be archived on a number of
> different sites outside kernel.org's control - there are *many* lkml
> archives on the 'net. In addition to LKML archives you'd also have to
> contact news sites that may have written articles on the thread and
> copied the message(s) in part or in full, and then there is any number
> of search engines that may have cached the thread and sites like The
> Wayback Machine that may have cached the lkml archives or the news
> sites etc etc etc... And finally you have a huge number of unknown
> people who may have kept personal LKML archives on their private
> machines going back several years - there's no way to identify those
> people and certainly no way to get them to remove a specific thread
> from their personal archives.
> Once a message is posted to a public mailing list (especially one as
> widely archived & commented on as LKML) it is practically impossible
> to get rid of - there's always going to be someone somewhere that has
> a copy.
>
>  

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