Re: [Exim] Administrivia: Take down requests

> It is clearly stated that an archive of previous messages exists when you
> go to find the list email address and/or register, isn't that clear enough
> to understand that if you send a message to the list, it will be archived?

It would be interesting to see the wording of the take down notice, but
it is quite understandable that it hasn't been posted.

Its not at all clear what legal basis there is to demand that the
material is removed. The gathering and publication of the data would
not appear to violate any data protection principles and the poster
has knowingly posted the information to a public international list,
so presumably consented to its wide dissemination and export to countries
with no effective data protection laws like the USA..

However, the rights and wrongs are not really the point. If you are
personally threatened with legal action by someone, defending yourself
can be costly. Furthermore, in some areas the DPA is a mess, there is
a lack of test cases and there are never any guarantees about who will
win any particular legal case.

If the archive was hosted by a large organisation with the resources
and will to fight the case who can host the archive it would be a
different matter. However, as I understand it an individual is
reponsible for it.