No subject

fairly minimal protection against email or other information harvesting, as 
there are plenty of other ways still left where postings can "leak" into 
public or otherwised published space.

My rule of thumb is to treat ANY mailing list or other group mailing list as 
"definitely public", while any one-on-one email or other communication is 
considered "hopefully private but still potentially public", since the other 
person can post it somewhere public at any time, among MANY other possible 
scenarios.  The number of recipients of an email (or any communication) 
causes at least a geometrical increase in the potentials for information 
"leaks".

This is why when I have information of a sensitive nature to convey to 
another RG member, I reply or send an email only to that person with those 
details, and send a seperate mail to the group (if there is any publicly 
useful info) with those details stripped out.  While taking the potentially 
sensitive info off-list won't guarantee the security of the info (since 
nothing can), at least it mitigates the risk a bit.

Evan


On Mon, 19 Mar 2007, Def Egge wrote:

> At 08:13  2007/03/19, you wrote:
>> Can anyone tell me why some of the emails from the Robot Group
>> mailing list are available on Google? If the emails are public, then
>> I would suggest making this clear when someone signs up.
>>
>> Les
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>
>
> This is probably not the definitive answer, Les, but there is nothing
> (a password, for example) to stop the Google spiders from accessing
> The Robot Group mailing list archives.
>
> I suppose that Evan Harris could produce a robots.txt file that
> 'honest' spiders would honor.  That is certainly no guarantee that
> the archive wouldn't be indexed by other search engine spiders.
>
> Password-protection of the archive and a polite request from the
> powers that be to Google might eliminate further indexing and remove
> (doubtful) the current content from Google (not Altavista, Yahoo,
> Dogpile, etc.).
>
>
> All the best....
>
> Mike
>
>
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