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Why hasn't my old program been removed from Garbo like I asked?

Every now and then an author asks for the removal of his/her program from Garbo archives. The usual reason is that the program version has become obsolete. Another reason is that the author has run into copyright problems and is compelled to discontinue his/her program. A third frequent reason is that the author has decided to move on and abandon his/her programs.

We try to honor the authors' wishes, resources allowing. However, please first carefully consider whether asking to remove a program from circulation is really that important, and even how realistic a withdrawal can actually be:

  1. Withdrawing a well-established program from general circulation is next to impossible. A deletion from Garbo archives would only be the tip of an iceberg, considering how extensive the Internet repositories are worldwide.
     
  2. One way of looking at Garbo archives is looking at it as if it were a CD-ROM. A CD-ROM will stay in circulation even if one or more of the files on it happen to have become obsolete. There is nothing extraordinary in such situations.
If the author still wishes the program to be deleted from Garbo, there can be several, potential reasons, why the request has not (yet) been honored:
  1. Nobody has had the time to do it. See the other Garbo FAQ  items for information on Garbo's personnel resource situation.
     
  2. The authenticity of the request is not evident. Email identities are notoriously easy to forge.
     
  3. There is so much spam in circulation that strong email filtering is applied both at the university and personal levels. Your email may have been mistakenly filtered.
     
  4. The program has been removed, but the author is looking at an old file list. (E.g. browsers may first need the caches to be cleared).
     
  5. The program has been removed from Garbo, but the author is looking at one (some) of Garbo's mirrors. Contact the maintainer(s) of the mirroring site(s). While mirroring requires our university's explicit permission, we accept no responsibility for the actions of the mirroring sites. To repeat, such cases should be taken up directly with the mirroring sites, not Garbo maintainers.
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