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 To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.