I completely agree with the judiciousness of members in revealing their personal info in their signatures. However open access to the archive through internet search engines such as Google does make the list to be infiltrated by commercial advertisers and others with the motive of spreading malicious things. A series of mails that we received yesterday for example with the removal request itself could be the result of such open access policy. While the site at the moment may be able to filter out those malicious things, those at the negative side are becoming more intelligent day by day and allowing them to access the archive is in my view an open invitation to such forces.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Geetha Shamanna" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, April 06, 2007 5:41 AM Subject: Re: [AI] Google National Reverse Phone Book Denying search engine access to list archives defeats the whole purpose of archiving the list. Although one can go to the Access India site and then search through the archive, it is a lot faster to search for messages in the Access India archive via Google. As you mention, listers should be judicious about what they choose to reveal in their signatures. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Vetrivel Murugan, Adhimoolam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, April 06, 2007 7:44 PM Subject: Re: [AI] Google National Reverse Phone Book There is one other thing though that I couldn't solve. When I type my cell phone number, then the Google search engine catches one of my previous messages from the access India archive. So I am just wondering whether something can be done by the moderator to protect access India's archival messages from such search engines. It also clearly shows the risk of including phone numbers in ones signature. I will be careful from now on. Vetri. ----- Original Message ----- From: "shahnaz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, April 06, 2007 12:59 AM Subject: [AI] Google National Reverse Phone Book For your information...... Google has implemented a new feature which enables you to type a telephone number into the search bar and hit enter and you will be given the person's name and address. If you then hit MapQuest, you will get a map to the person's house. Everyone should be aware of this! It's a nationwide reverse telephone book. If a child gives out his/her phone number, someone can now look it up to find out where he/she lives. The safety issues are obvious, and alarming. Note that you can have your phone number removed or blocked. I tried my number and it came up along with the mapquest and directions straight to our house. I did fill out the removal form for myself, and encourage all of you to do the same. Quite scary. Please look up your own number. In order to test whether your phone number is mapped, go to: google ( http://www.google. com/ ) Type your phone number in the search bar (i.e. 555-555-1212) and hit enter. If you want to BLOCK Google from divulging your private information, simply click on your telephone number and then click on the Removal Form. Removal takes 48-hours. Check your own number and although this may not apply to you if you have an unlisted number or cell phone as primary contact, but you may know someone who needs to know this. __________________________________________________________ Yahoo! India Answers: Share what you know. Learn something new http://in.answers.yahoo.com/ To unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in To unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in To unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in To unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
