On 2/3/09, Erica Frank wrote:

> It'd be *great* to be able to have public posts googleable, and
> open-to-DW-users posts not googleable. Right now, since I don't want
> everything I don't limit to my specific f'list to be searchable, I
> have search engines turned off.

Er, well, two things apply here. One, if the desired security goal is "make
this entry unindexable by spiders", then that's what the security should
*say*. I don't know if that's what Chasy is going for or not, since they
haven't yet chimed back in.

Second, I *believe *(although I do not know for an absolute certainty) that
one can, in fact, create this level of security by flagging one's content
for adult concepts or adult content, on the theory that spiders don't agree
to view adult content and get a cookie.

--zvi

P.S. If a person feels that a natural language solution of five centuries'
standing is beneath their prescriptivist's dignity, they may investigate the
invented pronouns, such as
zie.<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zie#Invented_pronouns>I invariably
find that if I want to use such a pronoun, I have to google it
to find its declension, but I'm generally able to recognize its use by
others with little difficulty. 'They', of course, I use with the naturalness
of a native speaker. All English speakers are used to the ambiguity of using
the same pronoun/verb forms to indicate singular or plural, as all English
speakers use 'you.' (Well, I shouldn't say all. I myself have been known to
use both "y'all" and "you guys". But the use of singular you is
well-established in most standard written Englishes.) And that is the last I
shall say on the subject.
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