OT: Iris - archives found by Google

Hi Anner and all,

I really doubt that there's any connection between the
archives showing advertising, and Google's having
found the archives.

One of my best friends works at a very high level in
computer security/encryption/etc. (he & partner were
doing computer security for a European government).
He says -- if you put it on the internet, it's findable.  Period.

Google has been finding more and more things ongoingly,
which one could also see as a good thing (e.g. people
looking for information on iris can find more of it).

What worries you about this?  I wasn't on the internet
until late 2000, but I can find old cat-rescue-training things
I wrote then, 9 years ago -- and sure I'd write them better
now, but I think people do tend to notice dates of things.

And if it's "higher internet profile" that worries you, it's
kind of too late (start of bad science fiction movie here) --
email addresses have been pretty easy to find, if people
really want to find them -- and posting on groups is very
findable.

Gesine

ps another side of Google -- they've got scans of a lot of
old iris stuff now! in Google documents

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So, I guess it must just be coincidental that this  hit-inducing change---
and the resulting higher internet profile for all  posters, past and
present--- comes to one's attention around the time the  Archives start
showing a
lot of advertising.

Silly old me to wonder about such things.

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> Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:27:20 EDT
> From: ChatOWhitehall@aol.com
> Subject: Re: [iris] OT: Archives linked to Google?
>
> In a message dated 6/30/2009 12:01:37 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
> jijones@usjoneses.com writes:
>
> Official  response from John:
>
> We did nothing specifically to link our archives to  Google. Google
> just found us with their web crawler. The iris-talk  archives have
> always been open to the public.
>
> I don't know  that there is anything we could do to keep any
> webcrawler out, nor  am I sure that we would want to. At the moment I
> really don't have  an opinion on the issue regardless of whether we
> could do anything  about it or not..
>
> -------------------------------------------------
>
> So, I guess it must just be coincidental that this  hit-inducing change---
> and the resulting higher internet profile for all  posters, past and
> present--- comes to one's attention around the time the  Archives start
> showing a
> lot of advertising.
>
> Silly old me to wonder about such things.
>
> Thanks for the official explanation, John.
>
> Cordially,
>
> Anner Whitehead
> Richmond VA USA

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