Nate Carlson wrote: >On Mon, 29 Mar 2004, Brian wrote: > > >>And a great policy that is. If you want to retract a post, why did you >>say it in the first place? IMHO, History is what it is. Please leave >>it that way. >> >> > >What about the case (not sure if it's happened yet) where an upset >employee posts something internal about their ex-employer, and the >employer requests it to be removed? > >I've heard about this happening on various other lists. > > Ok, so does said employer call to shut down internet archive services? (e.g. Wayback machine - http://www.archive.org/web/web.php) Or even Google Cache? There's a limit to what an employer can do to save face before you start running into free speech issues. If an employee spilled the beens so to speak, then they should be taking it up with that employee (theres even insurance for this for both employer/employee if I remember right), hassling online message boards, newsgroups, mailing lists, and other services to take down information will not solve the problem, and may end up making things worse. Of course thats just my opinion, I could be (and usually am) wrong. To quote an episode of "News Radio" (possibly butchered), "You can't take something out of the internet, that's like trying to take pee out of a pool, once it's in there, it's in there." Never sounds like a wonderful policy. Chris Frederick _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list