[!CrackMonkey!] Daftness in the UK

[Niall Brady]

Dunno if any of ye have seen this...

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	Niall

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Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2002 16:58:19 +0100
To: NTK recipient list <ntknow at lists.ntk.net>
From: Dave Green <tips at spesh.com>
Subject: NTK now, 2002-04-26

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         As if that weren't enough for the lawyers to look forward to, 
         there's another new takedown procedure stalking the websites 
         of this fair country. This time, it's someone who wants his 
         own postings removed from the archive of Nigel Metheringham's 
         exim-user mailing list; the legal axe being wielded is the 
         Data Protection Act - and the motive? Who knows? Especially as 
         Mr Deleted's exim-user postings were hardly controversial. A 
         bit naive, perhaps, but really nothing compared to the deluded 
         rantings most of us have in the indestructible archives of our 
         online pasts. So why go to such trouble to get them removed? 
         If Captain Scribble is trying to prevent spam-harvesting of 
         his email address: well, sending nasty letters to public 
         mailing lists you actually subscribed to seems a bit of a 
         heavyhanded way of tackling the problem. And what about all 
         his posts to Debian mailing lists where his address also 
         appears? We can't imagine the internationalist, freedom-
         loving, legally-rigorous Debianites will keel over so easily. 
         The other possibility, we suppose, is that it's a bold attempt 
         to prevent even the smallest hint of public fallibility from 
         being detected online. Well, that certainly did the trick.
http://www.exim.org/pipermail/exim-users/Week-of-Mon-20020422/037986.html
                                                                - cause
http://www.exim.org/pipermail/exim-users/Week-of-Mon-20000228/016945.html  
                                                               - effect

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