[bksvol-discuss] Re: About The Privacy Of This List
- From: Grandma Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2008 20:47:11 -0700 (PDT)
Very interesting and useful. Thanks for posting this.
G.Cindy
--- On Fri, 6/27/08, Monica Willyard <rhyami@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: Monica Willyard <rhyami@xxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] About The Privacy Of This List
> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Friday, June 27, 2008, 1:25 PM
> According to Freelists, both Bookshare lists and other lists
> Freelists
> host are publicly searchable and are indexed by major
> search engines.
> They use a filter to hide the poster's full email
> address, but if you
> post a phone number or mailing address in your signature,
> anyone can
> see it. So finding your own messages on Google has nothing
> to do with
> whether you are subscribed to the list. Google indexes
> posts from
> Freelists automatically. In fact, Freelists has a terms of
> service
> statement on their website explaining some of this and
> explaining how
> privacy is handled. Other services like YahooGroups work in
> the same
> way. So if you posted about a book called Sally On The
> Seashore,
> someone searching on Google or Yahoo for that title might
> find your
> post. They won't be able to get your email address, but
> they can see
> your name as being the person who posted the message.
>
> If you do a search for your name, Google will only show you
> 3 results
> from Freelists because they only show 3 results from any
> given domain
> when you do your initial search. If you want to see
> everything you've
> posted from Freelists, click on the button for more results
> from
> Freelists that you'll find on the Google screen once
> you've done your
> search.
>
> A friend of mine says it like this. "If you're
> comfortable saying
> something through a megaphone, go on and post it to a list.
> If it's
> too private for that, use the telephone." Nothing you
> post on the
> internet really disappears. In fact, I found a recipe the
> other day
> that I had posted to a mailing list in 1993. It's on a
> site I've never
> heard of. I only found it by putting my name into Google.
>
> It is quite safe to post to the Bookshare lists about what
> you're
> reading, what you think about things. Just don't post
> things that are
> private, things like your phone number, your passwords for
> sites you
> use, or that you live in an apartment where there is no
> lock on the
> door. In other words, have fun but be smart. (smile)
>
>
> --
> Monica Willyard
> Visit my blog at http://www.scannersguild.com
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