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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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03-30-06, 03:12 PM | |
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Join Date: Nov 2001
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Would you like access to the VF Forum in the Internet Archives?
The Internet Archive is a website that captures web pages from throughout the history of the internet. It is often possible to find pages there that do not exist live on the internet anymore. I use it a lot in my job as a teacher-librarian and I have often used it personally, as well, sometimes to dig up things I posted on VF that are no longer available on the VF site itself (Wendy can only archive so much).
The last time I tried to do this, though, I discovered that the forum was no longer available in the Internet Archive because Wendy had diasbled the crawlers necessary for the Internet Archive to perform this function. I questioned her about it and she gave her reasons in this thread. I could not find any discussion of this on the forum, and I personally would like to have this site crawled so we can have access to the archives. Since this forum is public anyway, I don't understand the desire to keep it from the webcrawlers. How do you feel?
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03-30-06, 07:53 PM | |
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I guess what bothers me about the Internet archive, as opposed to Google, is the 'forever' part. I think the Internet Archive is a huge invasion of provacy because they are archiving stuff that pre-dates their establishment. For example I would never post my full name on the net now because I know about the archive. But I have found stuff in there from usenet posts I made when I was 13, the internet was still new, and I did not realize that having my full name on my email meant it was going out on the net itself. I never posted anything bad per se, but I was 13! I do not want some future employer judging me based on my entire internet history, which includes a number of years where peopel did not foresee that what they were writing would be saved forever.
I also question whether anything on this forum really is so timeless and eternal that it needs to be saved that long. i am thinking here of the thread for a few days ago where people posted about going back and reading their old reviews and wondering what they were thinking! If, ten years from now, someone really wants information about Walk Away the Pounds or Richard Simmons or whatever, and the web page of reviews is not sufficient for them, they can always come to the forum and re-ask it. I would have to put in a vote for an EMPHATIC no to having this forum searchable via the Internet Archive. No, no, a thousand times, no Joanna |
03-30-06, 09:11 PM | |
Join Date: Jul 2004
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It bothers me that I can currently Google my name and posts from various places come up in the search. It seems so intrusive. Yes ... I know it's a public forum, but we have so little privacy left in this world ... I'm with others on this. Keep this forum the way it is. No archives. Sometimes things are better left in the past.
Carol
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