On 04/09/2002 02:49 A strange alien lifeform, Jay Garcia, reared up on its hind legs and bellowed:
> On 03/09/02 21:37, Jorge Fuente-Alba Replied As Follows: > > --- Original Message --- > >> after watching the length of this thread im beginning to wonder... >> what is X-No-Archives suposed to do? >> please share with me =) >> >> ---8<--*snip* *snip*---8<--- >>>>>>>>>Might someone post the actual pref that would accomplish X-No-Archives? >>>>>>>>>I'll be glad to give it a try. >> ---8<--*snip* *snip*---8<--- >> > > Prevents news services such as Deja News or Google News from grabbing > (archiving) your posts. At least those services that respect the > setting, not all do. > > I've never understood why anyone would want to prevent their messages appearing in the archives. If someone is happy to speak out in a public forum why should they be worried that people can still read it 10 years later? The Usenet archives are a goldmine of information on even really obscure topics/problems/questions and there is nothing worse than finding a thread in Google Groups that appears to hold the answer you are loking for only to find one or more critical parts of the thread missing, presumably beacuse the poster used X-No-Archive. Of course you may be lucky and find that someone has replied quoting the entire missing message, together with attribution, which kind of defeats the purpose of X-No-Archive. -- One of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was that, lacking a zero, they had no way to indicate the successful termination of their C programs. Anti-spam e-mail address, sorry for the inconvenience
