privacy and archiving posts
Claire Johnstone
like dejanews - if it ever returns in any readable form that is....
What detrimental effect could this have? None that I can see. If the
security services are monitoring these groups, they are not going to take
any notice of requests that posts are not stored for future reference, in
fact those are the posts they are going to be collecting, just in case.
The pay-for archivers are unlikely to drop such posts because they will
have greater value if they are not archived elsewhere.
The only people who will not be able to access your posts are the people
who are trying to learn how to hide their identities when posting to news
or browsing the net.
Surely it would be better to leave the posts archived, but to use
anonymous remailers, run a fierwall etc if you want anonymity? Failure
to archive is a false sense of security, and the implication that it has
any effect on privacy other than to prevent new people from learning is
unfair to those who might believe it.
Claire
sim...@c0ke.kaizo.org
> There seems to be some concern about the archiving of posts on services
> like dejanews - if it ever returns in any readable form that is....
> What detrimental effect could this have? None that I can see. If the
> security services are monitoring these groups, they are not going to take
> any notice of requests that posts are not stored for future reference, in
> fact those are the posts they are going to be collecting, just in case.
I would argue that any header with no-archive flags set would
attract *additional* scrutiny...
Must get round to providing some anon services at some point...
S.
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Ron S
clairej...@libertysurf.co.uk says...
The only reason I have been trying to activate X-N-A recently is because
I wanted to join a discussion; but a poster within the thread had
expressly asked that is post not be archived and anyone communicating
with him was asked to respect this. I thought about responding and
deleting all his input but know how annoying this can be for other
posters who haven't read the earlier posts in the thread and can not
follow the discussion. So I tried to activate the X-N-A and failed; so I
couldn't involve my self in the thread without ignoring the poster's
request, so didn't post my opinion.
Ron S