On Sat, 31 Jan 2004 20:26:43 -0500
Peter Wu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On Sat, Jan 31, 2004 at 10:38:42PM +0000, Stroller wrote:
> 
> > On Jan 31, 2004, at 7:57 am, jkw wrote:
> > [...]
> > >... how can we prevent
> > >gentoo-user from being archived on google, or stop google from
> > >making email addresses public information?
> > 
> > Sorry to sound unsympathetic, but it really clogs my mailbox when 
> > people complain about this issue. I can't see any way to resolve it,
> > so don't want to hear about it unless you have suggestions for doing
> > so.
> 
> How does Google archive the gentoo mailing list?
> 

Google doesn't.  A couple of mailing list archivers archive the gentoo
lists, and google harvests the data just like it does any other data on
the web. Anything in the archives, of course, can be harvested by
malicious spammers.  I'm surprised that my address is not harvested more
often than it is.

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