Greetings,
On 09 June I gave Jerry Feldman and the LUG community a link to my example
of a simple, professional-looking web page (opinions may vary). The link
is private in that the top page of the web site does not link to it.
The next day, Webalizer 2.01 showed that
if you Jerry or someone previewed the site with Chrome, Google knows.
there are hints that links in email are captured.
links in mailing list archives are definitely captured.
robots.txt is your only hope. (requires ownership of whole website.)
--
Bill
@n1vux bill.n1...@gmail.com
On 06/13/2013 07:18 AM, Bill Ricker wrote:
if you Jerry or someone previewed the site with Chrome, Google knows.
there are hints that links in email are captured.
links in mailing list archives are definitely captured.
robots.txt is your only hope. (requires ownership of whole website.)
I did
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On 06/13/2013 07:18 AM, Bill Ricker wrote:
if you Jerry or someone previewed the site with Chrome, Google knows.
there are hints that links in email are captured.
links in mailing list archives are definitely captured.
No such thing as private
I think your premise is mistaken. A link does not gain private status
because it doesn't appear on a website. The contents of this mailing list
are a public discussion forum, including all types of information- URLs,
email addresses, and grandma's secret oatmeal cookie recipe. It is not
Any suggestion that LUG communication is being specifically and
intentionally monitored by Google or others would be laughable.
So can we please not go there?
I didn't get the impression that specific monitoring of GNHLUG
was suggested, just that it was surprising (disappointing?)
to learn
On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 9:43 AM, Michael ODonnell
michael.odonn...@comcast.net wrote:
... just that it was surprising (disappointing?)
to learn that URLs obtained from sources other than WWW
crawling were used to get find WWW pages that were hidden
using only a security-by-obscurity
I don't think we can reach that conclusion. Jim posted a message
to the public GNHLUG mailing list that included a web address.
Hey, right! now that you mention it (duh) isn't that how WWW
indexing is *designed* to work in the first place? ;-
Forgot about the archived GNHLUG postings, and
What is your take on the second and third questions? Again, this is
just for amusing speculation on how the google bot programmers set up
their system.
Oops. Sorry for ignoring those in my haste to rant about my lawn.
Question: Having gotten the link, what motivated them to follow
