From: jkorpela@cs.tut.fi 
  
 Erwan David  wrote: 
  
 > Maybe they do not agree with google's privacy policy, so do not want 
 > *their* data being archived by google ? 
  
 First, if your privacy preferences mean that your messages should not be 
 made available to the public, don't post to Usenet. In this respect, 
 Google is quite comparable to a normal news server with very long 
 expiration times. Would a server with 100 years expiration times violate 
 your privacy? Then don't post. 
  
 Second, they do _not_ prevent their data from being archived. Anyone can, 
 and often will, quote them as desired. So what they achieve is that 
 until the end of the world, or until Google is terminated or 
 fundamentally changed, whichever occurs first, their messages will appear 
 as quotations so that people who find them will lack the possibility of 
 checking what the context was, what the full article was, whether the 
 quotation was somehow changed, etc. 
  
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