Posted by pseudoname on January 2, 2006, at 15:35:50
In reply to IMHO, posted by NikkiT2 on January 2, 2006, at 4:10:30
In My so-humble-I-lie-on-the-ground-throwing-dirt-on-my-head Opinion ;-D
> [Members-only reading] would also deter an awful lot of people finding the support here they need.
Agreed.
> I don't have a problem with posts being google-able.
Me either. In fact, I do things to make my posts MORE googleable. Like: If it's about a drug, I put the name in the subject line. I put links to some of my old posts in my new posts with certain keywords in the same paragraph.
I'm opposed to members-only reading. Idle public browsing of Babble benefits me and the Babblers who are already here. Plus, part of why I participate at Babble is to help OTHER people, not just me-me-me. That's a lot less possible if my posts are behind a wall.
> I think the safest thing, for those worried about "office snoops", is to clear your cache cookies and history
In a lot of systems (including Alex's workplace), users can't do that, unfortunately.
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