Re: Blocking Google
- From: "Pete" <pete@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 27 May 2007 17:09:50 -0400
Ken Blake, MVP wrote:
On Sun, 27 May 2007 14:12:04 -0400, "Poprivet"
<poprivet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
You guys seem to be missing the intent of using x-no archive. It's
not to HIDE from anyone, it's to prevent an off topic or less than
topical response from cluttering up the archives.
Regardless of what the original intent was, it's most often used today
by people who don't want their postings archived forever. And it
doesn't work for that purpose, as both Vanguard and I pointed out.
Most places that actually care will honor
the x-line in order to have clean archives and keep the clutter
down. In general there won't be many responses to an x- line like
that.
In my experience, the number of responses a message gets is unrelated
to whether the x-no archive tag is present. And if you get even a
single response that quotes your message, everything in that quote is
archived forever.
Hi Ken...but isn't it archived under the persons logo that responded to your
post, so therefore someone couldn't type your name into a box and have the
message show up (ie they would have to type the persons name who responded
to you, and then your message would show up as a quote in his response), but
that would be random luck for someone to come across my message that way, so
it is much safer or better.
Do you see what I am getting at, or am I all wet. Please read my second
post in the thread also - no one answered it. Maybe because I don't
understand it as good as you guys. In other words if I use x-no-archive,
everytime I write something whether it is an original post by me or a
response to another post, will that prevent my message from showing up when
someone types my logo into the google box...Pete
Professional
groups in particular find it a very useful tool. So, it's a
netiquette thing, nothing else.
I don't use Professional groups, but even if you're right, it may have
started as a "netiquette thing," but it's much more than that now.
A good example of why I might use that x- line would be if I thought
I knew the poster here and wanted to ask if it was the same person I
thought it was. I'd use x-no archive in that case since it has
nothign to do with the subject of the post and really doesn't belong
in the archives.
And when you get a reply, unless the replier also includes the x-no
archive tag (unlikely) it end up in the archive where it can be
searched anyway.
I'll refrain from commenting overly on its use in Professional groups,
where I have no experience, but I'll repeat that these days *most*
people don't use it that way, but simply because they don't want the
whole world to be able to read their messages whenever they want. And
for that most common use, it's well-nigh useless.
And, I think very clearly, the OP, who wrote "is there a way to block
Google from tracking your usenet posts" clearly falls into the
category I described, not the one you did.
.
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