Can a posting be removed?

[Geoff Keating]

Darin DeCounter <ddecounter@reviewjournal.com> writes:

> Is it possible to have one of my postings to a mailing list be
> removed?  Thank you.

Sort of.  A few seconds after sending the message, it has already
been distributed to the hundreds of people on the mailing list, and
shortly thereafter placed in the web archive on gcc.gnu.org.  We can
if necessary remove it from the web archive.  However, other
individuals and groups also archive our mailing lists, and we don't
even know who all these are.  There are also caches of the web
archive, most notably google, which are likely to keep a copy of the
old message around for some time.

The address to contact for such requests is overseers@sources.redhat.com.

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- Geoffrey Keating <geoffk@geoffk.org>