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How does one opt out? I've migrated my blog to my own system so if I want to make changes to an old post I can, but I won't be able to control my content that you are archiving which is a problem for me. It's actually rather bothersome to me. I figured I'd just go make sure my blog is deleted, but it could be archived by now.

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Everything that goes online is kind of online for as long as the Internet Archive and Library of Congress decide it should be. But I started worrying about where my account info might end up (I should really worry about that before signing up for every dang thing...), so I just found this info on deleting one's account: http://posterous.uservoice.com/knowledgebase/articles/36544-...

Maybe you can get to it before the Wayback Machine does.

Thank you, this method worked and my account is permanently gone now. I still run my blog at another location so I can maintain my content which I prefer to have some level of control over - even if it isn't total.

That is the world wide web. You published it and anyone could save a copy of what you published (right-click, save as) at any time. This is no different surely?

Sure, but it's still polite to observe robots.txt restrictions (or whatever analogous mechanism could work here)

I can also see your deleted reddit comment, but that still betrays some understanding of privacy.

And Facebook not actually deleting your photos when you click the "delete" button is ok too right? It's published forever?

I would presume that facebook photos are usually not public. There is quite a distance between the way private and public data should be handled.

This archive is taking one more step - right-click, save-as, "re-post to the web".

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