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060531 JimD wrote: |
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> I just found out something about Google Groups. |
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> http://groups.google.com/group/linux.gentoo.user |
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> Go to the link above on Google, click on any topic. |
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> At the top of the topic you will see the From: line. |
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> At the end there is a link named "View Profile". Click on that. |
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> Google shows a list of every group it finds your email in |
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> and displays it in a drop down. |
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They are presumably public lists, so CAVEAT SCRIPTOR . |
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It's like sending a letter to a newspaper: they might print it ! |
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OTOH the Internet does allow anyone to collect vast amounts of information, |
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but OTOH it's far too much for any realistic use malign or otherwise. |
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It's like the US govt collecting a record of everyone's phone calls: |
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however could they ever analyse them ? The rest of us laugh at them |
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(yes, someone in a bunker in Colorado may be reading this very message |
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& our peaceful, ordered & well-governed country may be targetted (grin)). |
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