On 03/03/2009 04:43 AM, Dave Post wrote: > On Mar 2, 2009, at 10:35 PM, Dave Post wrote: > >> (With apologies to Keith) Sebastian: In case it wasn't perfectly >> clear, open-office (as you call it) did NOT publish your email or >> email address anywhere. Google (and other organizations) run >> programs that automatically "harvest" this sort of information >> anywhere it's found on the web. So, when you send an email to a >> public forum like this one, you can be certain Google and those >> other organizations will add this information about you to their >> databases. That's why it turned up when you Googled yourself. >> (Obviously, I don't happen to care about that in my case.) > > I've been informed (privately) that OpenOffice archives email messages > at its website, and that's how Google (and others) manages to find and > harvest info that appears on this list. In that sense, then, I was > incorrect in claiming they don't publish that info. They don't, > however, do this with the intent of making it available for > harvesting, nor do they collaborate with Google for this purpose, as > the OP seemed to think. > > Dave
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