Re: Hiding originating IP when posting through CLOSED news servers

From: Mike (me_at_privacy.net)
Date: 02/09/04 

Date: Mon, 09 Feb 2004 13:53:57 +0000

Leythos <void@nowhere.com>, wrote:

>In article <RljVb.19263$uM2.12220@newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net>,
>zzzzzz@xxx.yyy says...
>> And if you do not remove the X-No-Archive: Yes from your headers you will
>> not receive another reply from me.
>
>I've only watched this thread, but I feel I should put in a response to
>the above here: If you don't like people that use XNA, then don't reply
>to them at all. XNA is there for a reason and it has two very valid
>reasons for being there, to stop clutter from being archived, and to
>stop users postings from being archived.

Quite.. But it's completely beyond me as to why anyone might not
"like people that use XNA". I mean, what the hell is going on
here, what difference does it make to this conversation?

>> The Usenet Archives are very important, just as important as the Usenet itself,
>> and keeping your posts out of it is just plain selfish.
>
>While the archive is important to many,

Please tell me you don't think this thread is important to
others?

>I've been using Usenet since the
>early 80's and once I found out about the archiving of posts I added XNA
>to my header.

Same here apart from the 80's bit. I didn't know usenet had been
publicly available that long. I remember that I almost gave birth
to something quite horrid when I discovered all my drivel had
been archived on Deja. I also know one chap who did the same,
and ended up writing a program that automates the process of
deleting your own posts from deja/google.

I think he should go public with it, that would piss Connor off.

> There is nothing I say that I want tracked for spammers or
>others to follow. Also, with all of our personal information that's
>tracked, I see no reason to track this information here also.
>
>Don't get me wrong, google does a great job with the archive, but each
>person should (and Does) have the ability to decide if they want to
>"opt-out" of being stored.

I find it curious that while Deja/Google have no problem with
this issue, one solitary usenet user does. Christ, I have fought
un-winnable "don't top-post" battle for years, I can't wait to
watch Connor with this little gem. But then, he's probably just
trolling as it's a stupid argument.

Relevant Pages

  • Re: How do you set x-no-archive on default with xnews.
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    (news.software.readers)
  • Re: Hiding originating IP when posting through CLOSED news servers
    ... XNA is there for a reason and it has two very valid ... early 80's and once I found out about the archiving of posts I added XNA ... with all of our personal information that's ... I see no reason to track this information here also. ...
    (comp.security.misc)
  • Re: Another google-busting idea
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    (news.software.readers)
  • Re: Dear Paul, July 12, 2006, updated, July 13, 2006, updated
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