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OT computer query
Can anyone tell me how to X-no archive posts, please? I use a Mac System X
but I suppose it might not be possible at all! -- Sacha www.hillhousenursery.co.uk South Devon (remove the weeds to email me) |
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Sacha wrote:
Can anyone tell me how to X-no archive posts, please? I use a Mac System X but I suppose it might not be possible at all! http://groups.google.com/googlegroups/help.html#prevent I do not want you to archive my article(s)! How can I prevent messages that I post from being archived on Google Groups? Google supports the 'X-No-archive: yes' header, and we will not archive any articles that contain this text either in the header or in the first line of the message body. pk |
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Janet Baraclough wrote:
The message from Sacha contains these words: Can anyone tell me how to X-no archive posts, please? I use a Mac System X but I suppose it might not be possible at all! On my newsreader, I go into "main page" and open "options"..the bit where you can set your sig, etc, and just tick the box marked "set x-no-archive". Btw, gardenbanter's webmaster has now decided to honour X-no-archive posts from newsgroups..about time too. Tragically, it completely deprives his website of my urg replies to gardenbanter posts and questions. One fears for gardenbanter's survival should x-no archive become widespread on their favourite "forum and bulletin board". As a matter of interest, and without any critical intent, why do some people like to keep their messages out of the archive? Nothing much I say is worth looking up, but I don't feel a particular need to suppress my remarks. Is it just privacy, or is there some other advantage I haven't thought of? -- Mike. |
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In article , "Mike Lyle" writes: | | As a matter of interest, and without any critical intent, why do some | people like to keep their messages out of the archive? Nothing much I | say is worth looking up, but I don't feel a particular need to | suppress my remarks. Is it just privacy, or is there some other | advantage I haven't thought of? It clearly isn't privacy, as posts are not private. It is used by trolls to prevent people pointing out their inconsistencies, but I don't know of another use. Regards, Nick Maclaren. |
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Nick Maclaren wrote:
In article , "Mike Lyle" writes: As a matter of interest, and without any critical intent, why do some people like to keep their messages out of the archive? Nothing much I say is worth looking up, but I don't feel a particular need to suppress my remarks. Is it just privacy, or is there some other advantage I haven't thought of? It clearly isn't privacy, as posts are not private. It is used by trolls to prevent people pointing out their inconsistencies, but I don't know of another use. Regards, Nick Maclaren. http://livinginternet.com/u/ua_prev.htm Summary: You can prevent most Usenet archives from recording your newsgroup postings. Remember that newsgroup archives save all messages on the Usenet, and other people will be able to retrieve your postings months and years later. You may not want this to happen for a couple of different reasons: a.. Time. Your message is an informational type with a short time span of interest, like a notice for a weekly seminar, and doesn't add any long term value to the Usenet. a.. Personal. You are discussing sensitive or personal subjects, or you have other privacy reasons. pk |
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In article , "p.k." writes: | | It clearly isn't privacy, as posts are not private. It is used by | trolls to prevent people pointing out their inconsistencies, but I | don't know of another use. | | http://livinginternet.com/u/ua_prev.htm At a brief glance, that site looks amusing, informative but not necessarily accurate. | a.. Time. Your message is an informational type with a short time span of | interest, like a notice for a weekly seminar, and doesn't add any long term | value to the Usenet. Actually, looking at such things years later can be useful, and marking those no archive might reduce the volume by - oh - 0.1% Gee. | a.. Personal. You are discussing sensitive or personal subjects, or you | have other privacy reasons. D'oh! The author of that was clearly having a blond moment. Do I really need to explain why? In article , writes: | | Some use it to try to stop employers from checking how many posts are | made by staff during working hours. Now, THAT makes sense. Regards, Nick Maclaren. |
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| Some use it to try to stop employers from checking how many posts are | made by staff during working hours. Now, THAT makes sense. :-)) My word yes, as some have discovered by making many, many, many public postings. :-)) Mike |
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Nick Maclaren wrote:
a.. Personal. You are discussing sensitive or personal subjects, or you have other privacy reasons. D'oh! The author of that was clearly having a blond moment. Do I really need to explain why? I can certainly see occasions when some insult is thrown around in a flame war when someone might want to reply with both barrels but not want the post to live on to be resurrected out of context in the future. There are certainly some rather ratty and crabby missiles from me lurking in the ether........... Not quite such a blond moment? pk |
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In article , "p.k." writes: | Nick Maclaren wrote: | | a.. Personal. You are discussing sensitive or personal subjects, | or you have other privacy reasons. | | D'oh! The author of that was clearly having a blond moment. Do I | really need to explain why? | | I can certainly see occasions when some insult is thrown around in a flame | war when someone might want to reply with both barrels but not want the post | to live on to be resurrected out of context in the future. | | There are certainly some rather ratty and crabby missiles from me lurking in | the ether........... | | Not quite such a blond moment? You mean that you are aware that you might regret being quoted in advance, so add the flag, and still post? That is so blond as to not realise that blond is a hair colour! Some archivers don't take any notice of that flag, it is a configuration parameter how long local feeds keep postings (and can be indefinite), some feeds archive their data, and it is always possible for any reader to archive a newsgroup. Plus, of course, the spooks probably record everything. Sorry, but .... Regards, Nick Maclaren. |
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Nick Maclaren wrote:
[...] That is so blond as to not realise that blond is a hair colour! [...] It is? I thought it was that French bloke who tight-roped across Niagara Falls. No, no, of course not! It was that rapper who got the king sprung from the nick. -- Mike. |
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On 12/4/05 1:51 pm, in article , "Nick
Maclaren" wrote: In article , "Mike Lyle" writes: | | As a matter of interest, and without any critical intent, why do some | people like to keep their messages out of the archive? Nothing much I | say is worth looking up, but I don't feel a particular need to | suppress my remarks. Is it just privacy, or is there some other | advantage I haven't thought of? It clearly isn't privacy, as posts are not private. It is used by trolls to prevent people pointing out their inconsistencies, but I don't know of another use. In the past and not on this group, I have a lot of unpleasant experience of someone who used to dig back into archives, find other peoples' posts, paste and copy them but with a word or sentence or two tweaked here and there, so as to alter the meaning totally. Other posters took all this as gospel truth because they couldn't be bothered to do the same 'research'. -- Sacha (remove the weeds for email) |
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Sacha wrote:
On 12/4/05 1:51 pm, in article , "Nick Maclaren" wrote: In article , "Mike Lyle" writes: As a matter of interest, and without any critical intent, why do some people like to keep their messages out of the archive? Nothing much I say is worth looking up, but I don't feel a particular need to suppress my remarks. Is it just privacy, or is there some other advantage I haven't thought of? It clearly isn't privacy, as posts are not private. It is used by trolls to prevent people pointing out their inconsistencies, but I don't know of another use. In the past and not on this group, I have a lot of unpleasant experience of someone who used to dig back into archives, find other peoples' posts, paste and copy them but with a word or sentence or two tweaked here and there, so as to alter the meaning totally. Other posters took all this as gospel truth because they couldn't be bothered to do the same 'research'. What no one has yet mentioned is that any *reply* to an x no archive post which includes the original will autometically put it back into the archive! btw; Hi All, just popped in to see about weedkiller and found that someone had asked my question yesterday afternoon and it had an answer, too. I want to use Roundup on one of my summer bedding beds to clear perennial weeds including those tiny white flowered ones which are out at the moment. I've got four weeks to let it clear and dissipate. -- Graham W http://www.gcw.org.uk/ PGM-FI page updated, Graphics Tutorial WIMBORNE http://www.wessex-astro-society.freeserve.co.uk/ Wessex Dorset UK Astro Society's Web pages, Info, Meeting Dates, Sites & Maps Change 'news' to 'sewn' in my Reply address to avoid my spam filter. |
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I thought most companies nowadays log all their employees' internal, incoming and outgoing computer traffic? Janet. :-))) |
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"Sacha" wrote in message
. uk... Can anyone tell me how to X-no archive posts, please? I use a Mac System X but I suppose it might not be possible at all! Waste of time. If your post is interesting (or annoying) enough for someone else to reply to, then your original message will be archived within the body of their post, whether or not the original is archived. This would also apply to subsequent replies if it wasnt snipped from those either. -- Tumbleweed email replies not necessary but to contact use; tumbleweednews at hotmail dot com |
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