[Fed-Talk] Restrict access to the archives?
[Fed-Talk] Restrict access to the archives?
- Subject: [Fed-Talk] Restrict access to the archives?
- From: "Cole, John (Civ, ARL/CISD)" <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2005 08:32:55 -0500
- Thread-topic: Restrict access to the archives?
Dale,
WRT your request for "Thoughts"...
Bottom line up front: It won't buy much. And never trust technology to
keep your embarrassing statements secret.
Weakest link problem: A restricted archive only provides as much
protection as the members of the list provide. Any member can/may repost
messages or keep them on a separate online list. What most commonly
happens is that a member of one list comments on a message from that
list to members of another related list. If you want the sure and
certain knowledge that your messages won't be read elsewhere, you can
forget it. But if you want a little false security with some extra
burden and eliminate a few interesting comments by others, then restrict
the archive.
OTOH, I don't see a compelling reason, either, to keep it open to
Google. Aren't there ways to close the archive to robots and not to
humans?
One way or the other, a lot to do about not much.
Jack
>We do have the option of restricting the archives (and thus Google) to
>list members only. I don't see a compelling reason to have these
>archives available to the world. Thoughts?
>On Feb 15, 2005, at 12:31 PM, Michael Chute wrote:
>> I think that one should consider any posting to a discussion site as
>> being public. Given the nature of this discussion board and some of
>> the member population I think if there is a way to prevent it from
>> being found by a search engine it might be a good thing to consider
>> doing that.
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