Re: Warning: your posts can be googled

["GERALD BRACEY" <gbracey1@verizon.net>]

I was thinking ARN was open only to subscribers, but I guess not since I 
sent a message from an account that isn't subscribed (I think).

Elsa's warning is a good one.  Privacy is a quaint 20th century concept. 
YouTube will hold you accountable.

I turn 67 in less than 2 weeks so I'm not sweating it.

Jerry

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "ElsaHaas" <ElsaHaas@si.rr.com>
To: <arn-l@interversity.org>
Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2007 9:13 AM
Subject: [arn-l] Warning: your posts can be googled


If you use profanity or some other form of speech that you wouldn't normally
use in a public forum, do you realize that your post to this list may pop up
some day when somebody googles your name?

I say this because I hadn't realized, or had forgotten, that this is a
message board (not an e-list open only to members), and recently when I
googled my own name one of my old messages popped up (fortunately it was a
benign one).

I'm mentioning this not so much for Jerry, who seems to have already made
his reputation and might not be worried about it, but for anyone else who
might not realize this.

I rarely read Art's posts anymore (I got tired a long time ago of his
claiming that "only the hopelessly naïve or terminally deluded would believe
such a thing" - I think that's an exact quote).

Still, I when I see (just as an example - I haven't caught up with all the
posts, and there might be others like this) that Jerry used the f-word, I
give him the benefit of the doubt because I did read Art's post in the past.


Somebody who's googling you to screen you as an applicant for a job (or a
buyer for a coop apartment, etc.), wouldn't necessarily get past the curse,
though.

Elsa Haas