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

[Howard Lowndes]

On Wed, 16 Apr 2003, Antony Barry wrote:

> 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?

They would not have the opportunity to have such similar action taken if 
the medium were something different, so why should this facility be 
provided here?

> 
> Tony
> 
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