Re: Alta Vista searches WHAT?!?
Wayne Lamb (wlamb@walnut.holli.com)
Wed, 17 Jan 1996 09:39:32 -0500 (EST)
Mark Schrimsher wrote:
>
> At 0:00 AM 1/17/96, Tronche Ch. le pitre wrote:
> >Speaking about privacy, I feel more concerned by being cross-indexed
> >in multiple robots-built databases. For example, we may suppose that,
> >after some years of a career, you've left behind you some data about
> >you in many of the organizations you've worked for. A robot could
> >collect all these data to create a file about you. Of course, none of
> >these infos may be very "sensitive", but, from some kind of "holistic"
> >point of view, their gathering would permit to infer some interesting
> >properties about yourself... May be...
>
> This is really the issue, I think, but the main problem is Usenet archives
> and mailing list archives, not indexing normal web pages. HTML documents
> tend to disappear, and presumably they would be eliminated from the robots
> index eventually. Archives tend to be permanent, and the participants in
> newsgroups and especially mailing lists are often not aware they're writing
> for posterity.
>
> --Mark
>
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