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[Stilgherrian]

On 24/02/2009, at 9:00 AM, Jan Whitaker wrote:
> It depends. I might want them to only see information for a limited
> time. [snip]

And then what? We stick needles in deep into our ears and wiggle a bit  
to erase the memories? ;)

I really think the time has come for "information producers" (that is,  
everybody on the entire planet) to understand that information flows  
and that if it has a use-by date then it needs to be labelled as such  
-- but that doesn't make the information vanish.

As I said, anything from a robots.txt to a metatag showing a file's  
expiry date or anything else can *always* only be a "polite request  
not to use the data" and that of someone has access to the data then  
the reality is that they can do whatever they goddam want with it. The  
only response is to impose some sort of penalty afterwards if it's  
used "wrongly".

Way off topic. I'll stop now. :)

Stil


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