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I don’t want to draw any attention to the post. It’s made it ~15 years in silence so I don’t want to make a change of strategy.

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Well, I will say that if these are backed up, they will be less accessible than they would with Yahoo. Someone will have to download a large archive (gigabytes, depending on teh group) and then search through it for themselves.

Yeah it’s not that the post is immediately bad. It’s that I had an alt account for a completely different side of myself and made one errant post with that alt account to a forum linkable to my real identity. So it’s not a serious concern but I’ll be glad when it’s gone.

It's been eating at you, I can tell.

Well, all I can say is, don't add that to the list of groups that this team is trying to archive (https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1Z-lODnyXsE2kiu8uL01L--10nDq...) and if it does end up on archive.org, you will find another post on this thread saying that they are very responsive to takedown requests. (info@archive.org)

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