it is not surprising that the e-mail to the endurance listserv
is appearing at lycos or even more likely - DejaNews. standardizing
the place where the listserv s/w puts past archives is the right thing
to do to make the web even more useful. this way the "web crawlers"
can find and catalog things efficientlty.
in the long run - it helps us all find things on the web. i suspect
the only way to stop it in our particular case is to modify
where the archives are stored. we cannot make the directory unreadable
by the world unless we start passwording things - which is a pain.
and it violates one of the "basic" - so far - ideas of the internet -
sharing info with the world to make the internet a fun and useful place
to play.
so - i have no problem with it - anything we post is "public" to the
listserv - and i would hope we would avoid saying things there that
we would not say on rec.equestrian...
what is funny(to some) is that if in your spare time - you have been
posting to the alt.sex...... groups and thinking only the group knows about
this - anyone in the world can see what news groups you like to read.
what is a little disturbing is the large amount of info that can be obtained
by people who know the web well. in a recent internet "hunt" - a game
for the experts - the goal was to find out everything known about a
particular person(who had given his permission) thru the web. the info
they obtained included SSN#, driving records, credit info, all the people
that he had sent e-mail to on the newsgreoups(but not the content), his
thesis from college, professional affiliations...... not all this info
is available "legally".
it also included what he donated to his college.
so you should be aware that there is a lot of traces of all we do on the
net. and the capacity for "misuse" is there. thats why the commercial
part of the web is slow to take off.
mike
mmaul@micro.ti.com
houston, tx