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Bill, Though I didn't do an extensive analysis, here's my quick analysis: Artie just posts your stuff on his site. Programs like Google crawl the ENTIRE World Wide Web and INDEX -->everything<-- they find. If you post something that's visible on the WWW, it's entirely possible that a web crawler will have it indexed. That's the purpose and power and value of search engines. I don't think this is anything Artie is doing nor anything he's doing wrong. Ed Burkhead http://edburkhead.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: William R. Bayne [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2002 10:00 PM To: COUPERS - TECH Subject: [COUPERS-TECH] WARNING! Good News Ercoupe Site Bad News For Privacy! ----[Please read http://ercoupers.com/disclaimer.htm before following any advice in this forum.]---- Read the current Newsweek's article about Google and looked up my name (hint-put quotes before first, middle initial (or name) and last ending with quotes again to narrow the search). Now, I'm hardly a celebrity with four hits, but the third really caught my eye: "We ... Have been coupe-obsessed since '82! William R. Bayne Remote Name: 192.91.147.35 Remote User: Date: Friday, November 01, 2002 Time: 01:00:14 PM. Comments. ... bassace.com/ercoupe/thanks_for_stopping_by.htm - 45k - Cached - Similar pages http://bassace.com/ercoupe/index.htm So...followed the link to find http://bassace.com/ercoupe/thanks_for_stopping_by.htm Scroll down near to the end for October 31, 2002 and you'll see what I posted after visiting that site that day. Now look over the invitation at the top of that page: "We'd like to know what you think about our web site. Please leave your comments in this public guest book so we can share your thoughts with other visitors." Well, it's one thing to leave comments to a coupe enthusiast webmaster and site visitors. It's quite another to find a compliment on a web site routinely broadcast to the world without clear fair warning such that thoughts are separated from proper context. Instead of heading above web link "WE", why not "Killer 'Coupe site visitor comments" or the like? The information source seems hidden on purpose. Scroll back to the bottom and hit "HOME" to find that this is Art Langston's Ercoupe Page. So enjoy the site...it's one of the best. Just be aware that anything you say will be in cyberspace for the rest of recorded human history, for better or worse, associated specifically with your name! And, I guess a logical question to Art would be why is he doing this? What possible legitimate purpose is being served here by such wide posting of an enthusiast's site visitor comments? Is he also selling visitor internet addresses to spammers? If such becomes "acceptable" (or even "normal") ethical behavior, eventually there won't be anywhere we dare identify ourselves by our given names absent compelling cause. And that's a darn shame and a real loss to humanity. Regards, -- William R. Bayne <____|(o)|____> (Copyright 2002) ========================================================================== == == To leave this forum go to: http://ercoupers.com/lists.htm ========================================================================== ==== To leave this forum go to: http://ercoupers.com/lists.htm
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