Re: Blocking Google

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On Sun, 27 May 2007 17:09:50 -0400, "Pete" <pete@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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.



I'm not sure what you mean by "safer" or "better." Personally I have
no problem with my messages being archived.

But if you mean harder to find, no that isn't so. If I do a google
newsgroup search for the text string pete@xxxxxxxxxx with today's
date. I find your message above and the other messages in the thread.
Even if you had begun this message with x-no archive, I would still
find the messages that quoted you, because that address exists as a
text string in the messages (for example, it's in the top line of this
message I'm sending.




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.


There was no second post here. This was the second post you made in
this thread.



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


Logo? Do you mean E-mail address? You are right only if your address
is typed in the author field, but you are not right if it's typed into
a text field.

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