we can just have a rule that no one links to the board from any of their 
web-pages, then it's not reachable by google or whoever.

we could also password-protect the board.


On Thu, 2 Nov 2006, Lisa Hsu wrote:

> as cool as searchable archives are, i'm kind of with claire on this
> one...i'm not particularly excited about the idea of some google search for
> my name to turn up some of those archives.  anything we can do about that?
> i like the new format (nice job rob), i'm not so on board with the eminent
> accessibility.
>
> lisa
>
> On 11/2/06, Clare Dibble   wrote:
>> 
>> Rob did a nice job making sense of the last two years of conversation, but
>> it made me think twice about what is public about my views.	Did any of you
>> have the same reaction?
>> 
>> I believe everything I have said and my posts don't seem to be
>> embarrassing in any context I can currently imagine.  But things can be
>> taken out of context.  As a place to hone our ideas and a forum for free
>> discussion, I feel hesitant to have potential employers or dates (if this
>> had been around back when I was dating) or other people I might know
>> casually know opinions on deep and sensitive subjects without me knowing
>> they even found it.	Bloggers seem to think sharing is the way to go, but
>> many others don't participate precisely because they can't control what
>> happens to the information once it is out in cyberspace. In the age of
>> google (and yahoo, Danny), is the internet a safe place to develop a social
>> conscience?
>> 
>> Clare
>> 
>> On 11/1/06, Robert Felty   wrote:
>> >
>> > Danny has been keeping archives of all the improvetheworld messages
>> > since the beginning (almost 2 years ago now), but they have been in a
>> > very inaccessible format (just one big text file). Danny gave me the
>> > challenge of making them more accessible, so I would now like to
>> > point you to the new archive:
>> > http://ai.eecs.umich.edu/people/dreeves/improvetheworld/archives
>> >
>> > Now if you would like to find something clever that one of the
>> > members once wrote, it should be much easier. Please let me know if
>> > you have any problems using it. One TODO item is to add search
>> > functionality, so be on the lookout for that in the not too distant
>> > future.
>> >
>> > Enjoy.
>> >
>> > Rob (improving improvetheworld)
>> >
>> > --
>> > Robert Felty http://www-personal.umich.edu/~robfelty
>> >  
>> >
>> > "Holy kleenex, Batman! It was right under our nose and we
>> > blew it!" -- Robin
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> 
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