[Matt Mackall]

On Wed, 2011-06-15 at 23:53 +0200, Adrian Buehlmann wrote:
> On 2011-06-15 21:14, Kevin Bullock wrote:
> > On 14 Jun 2011, at 7:38 AM, ratje .. wrote:
> > 
> >> Dear Mercurial users
> >>
> >> Accidentaly I put my ipaddress in one of my posts and now it's all
> >> over the internet. Can I or someone remove that ipaddress please?
> >> Pretty stupid of me, but hopefully it is possible. To whom can I
> >> adress this question?
> > 
> > IP addresses are not private. Any attempt to keep it secret is going to
> > be futile (short of only ever using Tor for Internet communications, and
> > even that is questionably effective). Every single HTTP server you point
> > a web browser at, for example, knows your IP address.
> 
> Not very friendly to post the IP again - whatever your opinion about
> that topic may be.

For the record, it's been my long-standing policy NOT to expunge trivial
personal data from mailing lists archives I manage. It's tricky,
error-prone, time-consuming, and ultimately futile work and punishes me
for managing a free public forum.

So if for some reason you post your credit card number here, you should
just go ahead and cancel it. It's easier for you to get a new card than
for me to fix your error, and hey, it's your mistake, not mine.

-- 
Mathematics is the supreme nostalgia of our time.