[LINK] A legal request to add a disclaimer to an old link posting

[Antony Barry]

Linkers

Late last year ANU received a formal complaint from a section of the 
NSW Government, the South East Sydney Area Health Service 
http://www.sesahs.nsw.gov.au/ , regarding an item posted over two years 
ago to link.

The item is - 
http://www.anu.edu.au/mail-archives/link/link0007/0249.html

This posting listed sexually related newsgroups which were located on 
the SESAHS news server and which are now no longer available. SESAHS 
are concerned that when a search is made for SESAHS on public search 
engines this posting comes up is could mislead people as to their role.

They requested that the posting be removed. The ANU replied formally 
that they were not prepared to do this.

They have now requested that a disclaimer be inserted in the posting 
indicating in some form of words that they have no connection to child 
pornography.

While ANU sees reasons not to alter the historical record they are 
being pressured on this and the original document would remain intact 
but with an addendum. They regard the link archives as mine and seek my 
permission to do this. I regard the archives as belonging to the list 
and I seek your comments.

Note that -

1. These are the old archives which are indexed by search engines and 
are open to the public.

2. The posting would still remain in the new mailman archives in it's 
original form. These are not indexed by search engines and are only 
available to members of the list.

I'm inclined to say yes. What do you think?

Tony

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