Re: Alexa (was Topica-Dot-Com)

[Paul Hoffman / IMC]

At 05:33 PM 2/28/99 -0700, Randy Cassingham wrote:
>So, if
>you've pulled one of your copyrighted pages OFF your server because
>you realized it had bad or out-of-date info, or slandered someone, or
>just because you damn well want control over your own property, well
>TOUGH: they're going to show it to people anyway without asking you
>or giving you the opportunity to opt out.

That was not true a year ago: they let you opt out, but you had to know 
that they had cached your pages (which is far from obvious). You could 
email them the URL that they had cached and request that it be removed; 
they did it. I don't know what their current policy is, but they do have 
toll-free numbers on their support page 
<http://www.alexa.com/support/index.html>.

--Paul Hoffman, Director
--Internet Mail Consortium