I do have something called ROBOTS.TXT invoked on the web site. What this is supposed to do is....A search engine comes along and is supposed to look for ROBOTS.TXT first. It reads the contents of the text file and it tells the search engine what the web site owner would like a search engine to look at (folders and files) or to NOT look at. Well, in my ROBOTS.TXT there are some things knocked out for protection reasons already. But 1.> it can't exclude just a word, and 2.> There is absolutely no law saying a search engine must obey the ROBOTS.TXT file.

For further protection of member info, I also have the e-mail address that are placed on there in non-text form. They are actually pictures of the e-mail address. Spy bots don't read pictures...They want the easy prey- text. So I have long since done what I could to protect e-mail addresses for years.

As you may recall, I used to keep a simplified roster on the site for those wanting to see if they were current on dues. I took the info from the LWRA roster and updated by hand (time consuming) yet, I omitted mailing addresses, e-mail address, and phone numbers with privacy in mind.

And so in a general sense I have taken measures to protect information over the years. I do respect anyone wishes to not have their info presented on the net and I do take action accordingly. I have in the past, been asked to not have anyone's info on the LWRA roster itself, and made sure there was no record of that member being a member.

To omit your call and name every where, I will need to review 1,175 documents (see attached screen shot picture) pertaining to the LWRA web site, mostly thanks to me keeping a nice archive of articles in the past. You did a lot of work over the years and received credit on many pages.

I ask that you grant me a reasonable time, but yet done in a timely manner to make corrections to the website to omit your information.

You should also be aware that even after corrections are made, search engines keep a cache of pages for what ever time they determine. I'm sure you have seen some google results that have a link saying 'cached' after the description of the search. So they have your information as well.

There are well over 1,500 search engines out there and that was at last count years ago. Probably many more now. I can try and contact them all and ask them for an update to the caching of LWRA.ORG or complete page removal. But with several billion pages on the net and only so much staff, this could take time, so you'd have to bare with them/me.

Thanks for your concern,

John LWRA.ORG Webmaster