Re: Warning: your posts can be googled - Two Errors

[Richard Hake <rrhake@earthlink.net>]

I thank discussion list respondents to my post of 5 August 2007 
titled  "Re: Warning: your posts can be googled" [Hake (2007a)] for 
informing me of two errors:

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1. In the abstract I wrote: "The moral: one should think twice about 
posting potentially embarrassing or sensitive material on discussion 
lists, even if (as for EDDRA, Math-Learn, PhysLrnR, and SciListserv) 
access to their archives is nominally restricted to subscribers."

I should have not have indicated that SciListserv restricts access to 
its archives. 

As non-subscribers to SciListserv can verify by clicking on the 
SciListserv archive URL
<http://lists.psu.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A0=SCLISTSERV&X=&Y=>, the 
SciListserv archives are NOT Restricted but open to all.

I'll eventually remove the "[R]" preceding the SciListserv entry in 
"Over Sixty Academic Discussion Lists: List Addresses and URL's for 
Archives & Search Engines" [Hake (2007b)].


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2. I wrote: "On 4 August 2007, a Google search for a key phrase 
"abysmal ignorance of the hard lessons" in Hake (2007c) (that 
'repeated the search with omitted results included') netted Google 
hits on AERA-L, ARN-L, EDDRA, Dewey-L, Math-Learn, RUME, even though 
the archives of EDDRA and Math-Learn are restricted to subscribers as 
indicated above."

I should have not have indicated that my EDDRA post turned up in a 
Google search.

Google returned my ARN-L post (cross posted to EDDRA) as it appeared 
in the ARN-L archives but not as it appeared in the EDDRA archives.

Nevertheless, the moral remains:

**One should think twice about posting potentially embarrassing or 
sensitive material on discussion lists, even if access to their 
archives is nominally restricted to subscribers.**

I apologize for the errors.

Richard Hake, Emeritus Professor of Physics, Indiana University
24245 Hatteras Street, Woodland Hills, CA 91367
<rrhake@earthlink.net>
<http://www.physics.indiana.edu/~hake>
<http://www.physics.indiana.edu/~sdi>


REFERENCES
Hake, R.R. 2007a. "Re: Warning: your posts can be googled," online at
<http://listserv.nd.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0708&L=pod&O=D&P=5779>. Post 
of  5 Aug 2007 15:51:07-0700 to AERA-L, ARN-L, Dewey-L, EDDRA, 
Math-Learn, Math-Teach, PhysLrnR, POD, and RUME

Hake, R.R. 2007b. "Over Sixty Academic Discussion Lists: List 
Addresses and URL's for Archives & Search Engines," online at 
<http://www.physics.indiana.edu/~hake/ADL-B.pdf>, or 
<http://www.physics.indiana.edu/~hake/ADL-C.pdf>, or if both fail as 
ref. 49 at <http://www.physics.indiana.edu/~hake>.

Hake, R.R. 2007c. "How Will Bill Evers Interpret Kirschner, Sweller, 
& Clark?" online at
<http://listserv.nd.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0703&L=pod&P=R4189&I=-3>. 
Post of 8 March to AERA-L, ARN-L, Dewey-L, EDDRA, Math-Learn, 
Math-Teach, PhysLrnR, POD, SciListserv, & RUME.