[rwmj]

Make sure you maintain control over the domain and always have a robots.txt file present, because if you ever lose that, those files will become visible again. Good luck arranging for your descendents to do this after you die.

[dredmorbius]

"If you cannot place the robots.txt file, opt not to, or have further questions, email us at info at archive dot org."

http://archive.org/about/faqs.php#2

[hnha]

just mail them, they are nice people.

[themonk]

it would be nice to have some standard method to delete the content.

[dredmorbius]

Emailing them is the standard method.

Sometimes, you know, you've got to, like, talk to people.

[axelfreeman]

I did this with my old website and it worked great.

[duskwuff]

I'm pretty certain that this isn't the case. If anything, it's the other way around - if a domain changes hands, and the new owner sets up a restrictive robots.txt, the content in the archive is made unavailable, and stays unavailable even if the robots.txt (or the whole domain) later disappears.

[antitrust]

This has been my experience as well. Once the content is deleted, it's gone.

[rwmj]

This is not true.