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[Kristal Kaiser]

Ok .  I have my answer please stop replying to initial message. Now I am
aware not to send any questions to a posting!

-----Original Message-----
From: Jesse Pelton [mailto:jsp at PKC.com] 
Sent: Monday, August 29, 2005 2:17 PM
To: spambayes at python.org
Cc: Kristal Kaiser
Subject: 


Kristal Kaiser said:

> I have a question.  An email i sent to your company back in may comes 
> up when  you do a simple search in google for my name. the email also 
> contains that the transmission and any files transmitted with it are 
> confidential so how can this be on google and how does your company go 
> about removing this information off the internet?

The SpamBayes mailing list is public and publicly archived, as clearly
documented on the SpamBayes site.  See
http://spambayes.sourceforge.net/contact.html.  The purpose of the archiving
is to increase the availability of the knowledge represented by answers to
questions, which can save greatly speed up the process of getting an answer.

There is no feasible way to retract postings.  Once you post to a public
list, you've put your message into the public domain BY YOUR ACTION,
regardless of any warnings attached to your message.  No one does, can, or
should remove this information from the internet.

If the list manager software somehow managed to understand your
confidentiality clause, the only reasonable action it could take would be to
suppress distribution of your message, in which case no one would ever see
it and you would get no response, which would presumably be counter to your
intent.

For what it's worth, there is no company, or indeed any formal organization
at all, behind SpamBayes.  A loose-knit group of good-hearted and talented
people with specific technical skills maintain the program.  They're not
completely altruistic, of course; they maintain the program in part because
it provides functionality they need.

If the public nature of postings bothers you, please consider whether a list
that you would like to post to is public and/or archived before posting.

This email, and any files transmitted with it, are 
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individual or entity to whom they are addressed. 

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