From: jkorpela@cs.tut.fi
Black Dragon wrote:
> Jukka K. Korpela wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> The issue is with Google, not other NNTP services.
>
>> 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.
>
> Wrong. What they achieve is *their* articles not being archived. What
> part of that cannot people understand?
>
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How funny. You post with a fake name, forged address, and you regard it
as precious to prevent your words from being archived as your posting,
not caring about the _exactly same_ data being archived in different
ways.
(Or maybe not the same. If I forged your words, the forged form would be
archived, not your original or any protest of yours.)
BTW, Google is not an NNTP service. Try using it with an NNTP client and
you'll see.
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