I didn't realize that until I joined a Google Group for Rails, went to my profile page and saw that Google could quickly display every post that I'd ever made to the debian list.* Kind of scarey to think that all of my posts to a list were being kept on record with out my knowing.* I'm sure that the debian list had an announcement about this, but I don't read every day.* Anybody else find this creepy?
Makes me wonder if i should check to see if my "Overly Fond of Goats" list has also been made a Google Group with out me knowing.* Sure wouldn't want anyone keeping tabs on those posts.* BTW, this bit about goats is a complete and hopefully humorous fabrication.
02-08-2008, 02:33 AM
Thierry Chatelet
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On Friday 08 February 2008 04:23, ChadDavis wrote:
> I didn't realize that until I joined a Google Group for Rails, went to my
How could it help others if it was not?
Thierry
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02-08-2008, 02:38 AM
steve
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ChadDavis wrote:
| I didn't realize that until I joined a Google Group for Rails, went to
| my profile page and saw that Google could quickly display every post
| that I'd ever made to the debian list. Kind of scarey to think that all
| of my posts to a list were being kept on record with out my knowing.
| I'm sure that the debian list had an announcement about this, but I
| don't read every day. Anybody else find this creepy?
|
its got nothing to with any announcement by debian list. its web
crawlers, they touch everything, scary huh. mailing lists are archived
all over the net. search for your email address on any search engine
you'll see quite surprising results if you post regularly to any mailing
list.
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02-08-2008, 02:55 AM
John Hasler
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ChadDavis writes:
> I didn't realize that until I joined a Google Group for Rails, went to my
> profile page and saw that Google could quickly display every post that
> I'd ever made to the debian list.
All Debian lists except -private are publically archived by Debian. Google
very helpfully indexes them so that people in need of assistance with
Debian can search for previous discussions of their problems.
> Makes me wonder if i should check to see if my "Overly Fond of Goats"
> list has also been made a Google Group with out me knowing.
This is a mailing list? Is it publically archived somewhere or mirrored as
a newsgroup? If not how would Google have gotten at it?
> Sure wouldn't want anyone keeping tabs on those posts.
Now your boss knows they exist.
> BTW, this bit about goats is a complete and hopefully humorous
> fabrication.
Sure it is. _Sure_ it is.
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02-08-2008, 02:58 AM
John Hasler
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Steve Reilly writes:
> its got nothing to with any announcement by debian list.
It has everything to do with the fact that Debian publically archives all
Debian lists except -private.
> search for your email address on any search engine you'll see quite
> surprising results if you post regularly to any mailing list.
Only mailing lists that are publically archived. Google has no way to get
at private lists.
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02-08-2008, 03:29 AM
cothrige
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steve <sfreilly@roadrunner.com> writes:
> its got nothing to with any announcement by debian list. its web
> crawlers, they touch everything, scary huh. mailing lists are archived
> all over the net. search for your email address on any search engine
> you'll see quite surprising results if you post regularly to any mailing
> list.
Actually, I think the truth is even simpler than this. Google Groups is
a usenet archive and posting service. Debian-user is also a usenet
group, lists.debian.user, and all the posts here I think are
automatically crossposted to that newsgroup, and vice-versa. I have
used that method to browse through a time or two, though I prefer the
mailing list way of doing things a bit. But, because this is a
newsgroup and a list it has automatically been archived at google
groups. Or, at least I would think that is what is going on.
Patrick
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02-08-2008, 06:01 AM
Daniel Burrows
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On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 08:23:31PM -0700, ChadDavis <chadmichaeldavis@gmail.com> was heard to say:
> Makes me wonder if i should check to see if my "Overly Fond of Goats" list
> has also been made a Google Group with out me knowing. Sure wouldn't want
> anyone keeping tabs on those posts. BTW, this bit about goats is a complete
> and hopefully humorous fabrication.
I'm sure some guy at Google is wondering why they just got a spike in
searches for "Overly Fond of Goats"...
Daniel
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02-08-2008, 09:21 AM
"Dan H."
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On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 09:55:07PM -0600, John Hasler wrote:
> This is a mailing list? Is it publically archived somewhere or mirrored as
> a newsgroup?
Yes, it is. Read-only IIRC.
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02-08-2008, 09:39 AM
David Paleino
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Il giorno Fri, 8 Feb 2008 11:21:52 +0100
"Dan H." <dunno@stoptrick.com> ha scritto:
> On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 09:55:07PM -0600, John Hasler wrote:
>
> > This is a mailing list? Is it publically archived somewhere or mirrored as
> > a newsgroup?
>
> Yes, it is. Read-only IIRC.
Not true: I'm writing now using gmane.org's interface
In article <20080208102152.GA4836@stoptrick.com>,
Dan H. <dunno@stoptrick.com> wrote:
>
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> On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 09:55:07PM -0600, John Hasler wrote:
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>> This is a mailing list? Is it publically archived somewhere or mirrored =
> as
>> a newsgroup?=20
>
> Yes, it is. Read-only IIRC.
Sorry, but no - this is a follow-up posted using slrn to the newsgroup
gmane.linux.debian.user, via the gmane NNTP server.
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