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I didn't ask him to remove it. Originally, we had not planned to. As I said, none of us felt anything I had written was legally actionable, or that Seybold would actually take such action.
Then later that evening, I was slightly worried by one of the comments someone posted, and asked whether removing the comment would affect our protection under the DMCA's "safe harbor" provision. At that point, Paul Biba exercised his editor's privilege to remove all the posts entirely so I wouldn't have to worry about such things anymore.
As I said, I did not ask him to, and I really wish he hadn't. But what's done is done and I'll take what consolation I can in the fact that it also removes one of the best and most-detailed plugs for the Africa that could be found on-line up to that point.
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