On 04/09/02 06:44, Parish Replied As Follows: --- Original Message ---
> 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. > Not only what Garth mentioned, but ... Many users, I for one, use the SECURE server(s) and I post with my REAL mail address. I don't particularly care to have my real address spread all over usenet. I have the good fortune to own my own mail server and therefore have many *throw-away* addresses mainly so that I can track where spam harvesting originates. -- Jay Garcia - Netscape Champion Novell MCNE-5/CNI-Networking Technologies-OSI UFAQ - http://www.UFAQ.org ** Post To Group ONLY, do NOT email **
