[HP4GU-FAQ] Re: Yahoo...& legal sensitivity

[Paul Kippes]

Thankfully, search engines do not go into the content
of compressed files (from what I've found)--too time
consuming.  So as far as the Xoom.com site hitting a
search engine--not likely.  (It's even less likely now
that the files are .exe files.)


--- Neil Ward <neilward at dircon.co.uk> wrote:
> --- In HP4GU-FAQ at egroups.com, Paul Kippes
> <kippesp at y...> wrote:
> > Earlier, Penny wasn't sure about the accessability
> of
> > our Yahoo! club.  Anyone can read all the
> messages. 
> > (Incidentally, that made archiving the club MUCH
> > easier and faster since no cookies were involved.)
> 
> I know anyone can read the messages in the club (if
> they are 
> masochists), but am I right in assuming that the
> larger search
> engines would be more likely to pick up the text of
> our messages in a 
> search, if they were, as they are, located on an
> independent web site?
> 
> At the moment, Stouffer would have to go into Yahoo
> clubs and HP4GU 
> and read through all the posts.  But, if she typed
> her own name into
> a search engine, she might get hits from our archive
> (I guess it
> depends whether or not they are indexed - is that
> down to the site 
> owner alone?)
> 
> I guess, on the IP issue, we could argue to Yahoo
> that we wouldn't 
> have had to resort to stealing their 'property' if
> they offered a 
> decent search facility themselves...hmmm, weak
> argument, I know.
> 
> Neil
> 
> 
>

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