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View Poll Results: How do you feel about alllowing webcrawlers to archive this forum? | |||
Yes, I would like to see the forum in the Internet Archive. | 25 | 24.51% | |
No, I would prefer to keep this forum unarchivable, as it is now. | 77 | 75.49% | |
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04-01-06, 11:57 AM | |
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I voted yes too. I like reading the old threads and nothing on a message board is etched in stone anyway, whether it's a brand new thread or a thread from five years ago. You have to take it for what it is - conversation. From time to time, very old threads are referenced here and it would be nice to search those out and read them. I don't feel like my privacy is at risk either.
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04-01-06, 12:26 PM | ||
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Someone can correct me if I'm wrong, but it's my understanding that the General Discussion forum is archived on VF and searchable through VF -- it's just not supposed to be searchable by google and other "outside" search engines. Elisa |
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04-01-06, 12:46 PM | |
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I understand that, Helen - but most people lurking/looking on this forum at least have an interest in exercising and are here for that reason.
They do not just come across posts because of the "dumb luck" of a phrase in a google search. For example - I usually bring up Colin Farrell whenever someone asks who I'd like to see lead a workout video. If someone googles "Colin Farrell" I do not want my posts coming up. |
04-01-06, 01:21 PM | ||
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Kath and Elisa - the forum is archived here and searchable here only to a certain degree. As we know, check-ins are deleted, and I have found that the even the General Discussion archives no longer go back to November 2001, which is when the forum in this format was created. And then there are the archives of the earlier versions of this forum (pre Nov.2001) which, of course, are not available here, but used to be available on the Internet Archive. All of these were accessible until about a year ago, and I don't recall any horror stories as a result. Just recently around the anniversary date of the birth of the yoga check-in, I thought it would be fun and interesting to dig up the inagural Yoga check-in, which was on previous forum software. Kind of like you bring out old pictures at a birthday party. But with the webcrawlers disallowed, this trip down memory lane wasn't possible. Not expecting to change people's minds, but did want to clarify and answer questions.
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04-01-06, 01:35 PM | ||
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One does wonder about the lost Lenore. (A VFer who posted often and then tragically became ill and died). I wonder how she would feel to know that her posts live on? I didn't know her well enough to answer that question.
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