X-No-Archive and its ilk

brian lists at karas.net
Tue Jul 8 14:42:29 EDT 2003


It is an unfortunate reality that posting your "real" email address to
any world-readable place is a likely invitation to spam.  Additionally,
past messages have been dug up and used against people in varies ways on
more than one occasion.  Not everyone wants the headaches of having
their personal email addresses visible to the world.  Quite often the
people who are even aware of a No-Archive bit, what it does, where to
set it, etc, have usually made contributions back to the electronic
community in more than one fashion.  This (IMO) cancels out the negative
karma that you imply exists by them taking information from a search
engine, yet not "giving back" by allowing their own posts to be archived
in the same search engines.

If the world were fair, all email would still be text, lynx would be a
useful browser and spam would merely be a meat-like substance and not an
email marketing scheme.

On Tue, 2003-07-08 at 14:12, Kevin D. Clark wrote:
> brian <lists at karas.net> writes:
> 
> > Yeah, and then I felt sorry for the poor clod who has his real email
> > address hanging out in the wind.
> 
> Your response is very naive.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> --kevin
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brian <lists at karas.net>




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