web archive & listproc help (was: Collecting computers - the book...

From: Doug <doug_at_blinkenlights.com>
Date: Tue Feb 2 23:52:39 1999

On Wed, 3 Feb 1999, Ward D. Griffiths III wrote:

> Well, I've picked up messages from the list through Yahoo and Altavista.
> Including some of my own. I'm of seriously mixed emotions concerning
> web-accessible mailing list archives (Usenet archives are different --
> you _know_ that everything you type is being archived by somebody), as
> I've traditionally considered mailing lists "semi-private".

So, why use your real identity on "published" lists like this one? I
stopped doing that after I found some email I wrote in *1985* web archived
and search engine indexed.

-- Doug
Received on Tue Feb 02 1999 - 23:52:39 GMT