[amayausers] Re: How did this happen

Even then, not every search engine obeys the robots.txt file....  Best
advice is if you don't want it catalogued, don't post it.

As far as posting suppliers, I don't think in the internet age that it's an
issue and it helps those getting started or needing help finding specific
items.  If someone is smart enough to google for suppliers in a specific
area, they are smart enough to find the supplier site even without this
list.  


On 10/27/05 11:30 AM, "Steve Cohen" <steve208321@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Only way to stop it would be to have the website owner edit the robots.txt
> file to stop search engines from crawling the website. Chances are you won't
> be able to get freelists to do that. So just keep in mind EVERYTHING you
> post to any forum (exception would be some password protected websites) It
> would be pulled by a search engine and posted in public at some time. This
> is why I refuse to put links and supplier names on this message board and I
> suggest others not post suppler names as well. I don't think we need more
> compitition.
> 
> 
> From: John Yaglenski <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <amayausers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2005 11:07:51 -0400
> Search engines catalog the list, as it is posted both publicly to a website
> and privately to your email box.
> 
> That's how it happened.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On 10/27/05 11:03 AM, "PPI01@xxxxxxx" <PPI01@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>> Several months ago I posted a request for information on the list.  I now
>> see
>> that Goggle has picked up the entire posting complete with my name address
>> and telephone number.  The posting was not nasty it just voiced a problem I
>> was having with a company.  The posting was not meant to follow me and my
>> company
>> forever.  Yes, yes I know nothing is confidential on the net but I wish
>> someone could help me understand how this happened.  I will be more careful
>> in
>> the future.
>> 
>> Anonymous
>> ppi01@xxxxxxx
> 
> 
>

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