At 01:13 PM 12/7/2001 +1300, Simon Byrnand wrote:
If somebody libels you in a newspaper article, can you go around telling all the librarians in the country to cut that page out of their archive version of the newspaper ? I think not. Get a retraction printed in a future edition, yes. I don't see a difference here. Just because technology makes it *possible* to do revisionist censorship of archives doesn't mean we should...
Yes but it is a dam sight easier to remove this info from an electronic archive than it is from a News paper, here's an idea why not use the capabilities of our technology to perform a simple request. The difference is it can be done.
and yes, I think Joe Ableys idea is a good one :)
me tooooo :-). John Lynch System Administrator (string and tape specialist) Wise Net - To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog