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Flujo

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Today I realised that SF is indexed by Google. So, if you happen to have mentioned anything about anywhere you have been or any opinions you have about people then guess what? The entire Google searching world now knows about it! Dop!!

I typed in the name of a social and it guess what was in the first set of results...yep, my post from months back. So much for being secure in the knowledge that you have to actually visit the forum in order to see the posts. :)

Good job I'm not one to slag people off eh.

Moral of the story is...if you wish to remain semi-anonymous, think before you type.
 
All web pages are indexed by search engines such as Google, Yahoo search, MS live search, etc... (using so called search engine bots). These bots can be told not to index certain web pages by using a meta tag or placing the appropriate code in a .htacces-file. However, most webmasters want search engines to index their pages, else their web pages will not show up in search results.

One more thing to keep in mind is that if you type your email address on the internet, it is easy for people to see where you have been just by searching for your email address... Also you will probably get a lot of spam in your email box because there are programs that are made for the solely purpose of collecting email addresses to use for spamming... (Your email address can e.g. be indexed if you choose the option to always show email address in your profile and also if you type it in the field for MSN Messenger. It can also be indexed if you post it...)
 
Yeah, I have had friends tell me they googled "salsa portland" and found one of my posts :lol:

Everything is open to the public on these forums!!
 
Yes, the internet is forever. I just searched Google News and found a post I made in 1987. I'm not too worried about the email address getting spammed.

It's: ...hplabs!felix!jsf
 
1987, wow. Suppose it was a bit silly thinking the SF site was the only way to see the posts here. There has been no damage done anyway so that's ok. Just have to be conscious of it next time I have a whinge about something. :)

Have any of you ever got yourselves into trouble by not realising that? Do tell.
 
SnowDancer said:
Yes, the internet is forever. I just searched Google News and found a post I made in 1987. I'm not too worried about the email address getting spammed.

It's: ...hplabs!felix!jsf
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Lol, even with all of us techno geeks on here, most won't recognize the ! reference... (oops, showing my age!)
 
lolita said:
Flujo said:
Have any of you ever got yourselves into trouble by not realising that? Do tell.
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Are u asking about how many times ? :roll:
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Anyone who posts in red is bound to be trouble :twisted: ;)
Go on, how many times?

tj said:
Lol, even with all of us techno geeks on here, most won't recognize the ! reference... (oops, showing my age!)
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What does it mean?
 
Wow...that was tooooooooooooo many times i lost count since i was 14, and i am 22 now :roll:

Hold up hold up....red, troubles? mmmm...LOL...do i smell a fight pick? ;)
 
Flujo said:
tj said:
Lol, even with all of us techno geeks on here, most won't recognize the ! reference... (oops, showing my age!)
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What does it mean?
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Back in the day, before @ became ubiquitous, some email systems had you use the ! symbol in order to route your email to the proper person.

There's a brief one sentence acknowledgement over on Wikipedia:
"Early e-mail systems also used the exclamation point as a separator character between hostnames for routing information, usually referred to as "bang path" notation."
 
:banana: <---is this you throwing some hands then?

:uplaugh:

Throw all the hands you want. You'll have to catch me first!
 
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