[Mailman-Developers] Don't trust X-No-Archive to keep your secrets.

Barry Warsaw barry at list.org
Thu Feb 12 21:22:47 CET 2015


On Feb 12, 2015, at 12:50 PM, J.B. Nicholson-Owens wrote:

>I believe this is the case for two reasons:

>1. Structurally: Few search engine companies will throw away an opportunity
>to collect data when there's so much for that organization to gain by
>indexing that data.
>
>2. Specific to Google: When Google took on DejaNews's archive of Usenet posts
>Google's search engine Google released copies of posts labeled "X-No-Archive:
>yes" for a while.
>
>Overall, I think people are better off understanding that their boilerplate
>is not binding on most people (if anyone) and they need to be more careful in
>what they send.

Aside from the fact that you should just assume that nothing on the intarwebs
is secret. ;)

Cheers,
-Barry


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