How to Delete a Post I made on a Some one else's Yahoo group?

Question

I've posted few messages to a Yahoo group couple of years ago, with my full Name, place of work and official email address mentioning in the posts. Recently, the group owner has decided to make the group archives public. Now that, the search engines can crawl these message archives and they have indexed all these past messages. Now, every time some one Google (or Yahoo!) for my full name, all these messages pop up on top, with my full email address. I wrote to the group owner & moderators, and they REFUSED to delete these messages, saying that it's not their policy, and asked me to stop posting to the group anymore, if I don't want my posts to be crawled by SE's.

This is a huge privacy concern for me. On any social media website, the users have the right, and option to remove what ever the content they added to the sites at anytime. Does Yahoo Group have a cover, for it's users as well? I mean, is there some place or some one, whom I can complaint about this?

Answer 1

Go to Yahoo! Groups Help and check the Customer Care section. There is a form that you can use for abuse.

It is definitely a privacy issue but whether Yahoo! Groups will be sympathetic or not remains to be seen.

Give full details of the Group, the messages in question, when the Owner decided to change the restrictions on Archives and also details of your correspondence with him/her. Try to be concise and objective in your claim and not to get heated!

I wish you luck!

The Internet (as you have learned and as I did, too, in a similar situation) is not a secure place, as many people assume. Anything you (or anyone else) posts about you is liable to be spidered and appear in search engines. I recently found my details on a 'business' website which had spidered for details of individuals in various professions and had created a 'profile' for me completely without my knowledge or assent. The fact that I had allowed my details to be published on the Staff page of a company I worked for was, for them, enough! I had the entry deleted, of course!

Answer 2

if you're a member of this group, click to open and read your post, top left it will have links

Reply | Forward | Delete <-- click delete and delete your own post. memebrs always have that option to delete their own.