Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1996/11/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 08:35 PM 11/24/96 -0400, you wrote: > I am more concerned with how M. Garvik was able to find that site, >and how much effort he is making in his investigations of the people on the LUG. > People should remember that EVERYTHING they post on the Internet to a group is potentially available to everyone, forever. LUG, and Medium Format Digest, to which I also subscribe, have archives that keep posts around for years, in addition to the "archives" that exist in the computers of individuals. So that nasty note you knock off and post to LUG with no hesitation is a long-lived public document. As for Web pages, all Oddmund or anyone else has to do is enter someone's name in a good search engine, and if that person has a contribution on a web site, it may well come up in the results. I have found a couple of photographers' web pages that way, including one in LUG. Since Oddmund noted Thrall's contribution to a Buchanan site, that's presumably how he did it. This is not an "investigation" parallel to having someone go through your garbage; you choose what you put out there. If you don't want someone like Oddmund to know about, say, your political leanings, then don't write contributions like Mr. Thrall's. I wouldn't feel too threatened, anyway--all he can do is send more nasty messages, right? Charles E. Love, Jr. CEL14@CORNELL.EDU