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| From: | David Hill |
| Subject: | [Savannah-help-public] Mis-posting to gnuspeech mail list |
| Date: | Fri, 7 Dec 2007 09:33:15 -0800 |
| Dear Savannah Hackers,
There is an ongoing problem with one of our posters to the gnuspeech mail archive and I do not seem to have any means to resolve the problem. Basically, Vikas Shivpuriya of the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center posted an email to the list with all his personal contact details on June 17th 2007 and I accepted it, so it was distributed on June 19th. Some time later he has started asking me to remove this personal information because a number of other sites are picking it up and republishing it. I attach a copy of the email I have just sent to him on the matter. I think it is self-explanatory and puts you in the picture. I have made it clear that we have nothing to do with the other lists he mentions, but it will obviously be an ongoing problem if the information remains on the gnuspeech mail archive as anyone can pick up the same information from the archive. I would be most grateful if you could remove his personal details (address, phone numbers & email address) from the original posting to the gnuspeech list (June 17 2007). Please let me know what can be/has been done. Many thanks. david -------- David Hill, Prof. Emeritus, gnuspeech list administrator CS Dept, U. Calgary, Calgary, AB T2N 1N4 Canada -------------------------------------- Dear Vikas, On Dec 6, 2007, at 10:50 AM, address@hidden wrote:
Earlier vikas wrote:
By posting to the gnuspeech site, as a non-member, you are asking for your post to be accepted. When the post is accepted, you normally become a member and the email you sent is added to the list archives, and is available to all those who visit them. My role is only to make sure that material sent by spammers, or other unsuitable emails sent by non-members is kept off the list. You are asking me to remove the reposted details from both the opensubscriber.com and nabble .com sites. I have *absolutely nothing* to do with the "nabble.com" site or the "opensubscriber.com" site, nor are they (AFAIK) anything to do with gnu or savannah. I have done some Googling and found that the nabble.com site is supposedly run by: Weizhen Lin PO Box 99800 EmeryVille, CA 94662 US Phone: +1 510 595 2002 contact [at] myprivateregistration.com (URL for this information is: http://www.alexa.com/data/details/main/nabble.com ) The opensubscriber.com site is supposedly run by: Aaron Hughes Phone: +61 041 893 0431 aaron [at] diezmil.com (URL for this information is: http://www.alexa.com/data/details/main/opensubscriber.com ) It is those companies that you will have to contact to have that listing of your personal details removed from their sites. As I say, I have nothing to do with those sites, and cannot change or dictate what they have posted. I was unaware of either site until you brought them to my attention. I notice that nabble reproduces information from many gnu sites, but that is only a small part of what they seem to do. I have no idea why they would do this. The gnuspeech list site to which you originally posted is a semi-public site and it is not possible to stop other people from accessing the site, collecting information on the site, and reposting it on their own sites. Non-members accessing the gnuspeech site cannot see the senders' email addresses, but they *can* see the content of messages. You put your personal detail in the message itself. As I told the last time you contacted me, once you have posted a message it has been put in the public domain. Your mistake was in posting all your personal information on a site to which the public have access. My only role with the gnuspeech site is to reject non-legitimate postings (e.g. from spammers). The gnu savannah hackers run the site, not me. I will bring your request to their attention in the hope they can remove the personal information from your original posting, something I can find no way to do. But there is always the problem that other sites may have collected your information; and even with the opensubscriber.com and nabble.com sites, there will be Google archives, no doubt. Good luck with your quest to remove your information from the nabble & opensubscriber sites. All good wishes. david -------------- David Hill |
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