[Dixielandjazz] Watch what you say

[Mike]

It depends on how popular the particular item is. It also 
depends on how it's classified. I've found stuff I've posted on 
various message boards years ago rather easily. Message boards, 
public lists(as you mentioned) and not so public lists have 
stuff that has made it to google or yahoo search engines. The 
best rule of thumb is if you don't want it out there, then don't 
post it.

Emails have been known to pop up on certain web searches too. 
There are crawler based search engines(google) as well as human 
powered directories and then there are the ones in between. 
Stuff that normally wouldn't show up can if someone decides to 
put it there.

Mike



Scott Anthony wrote:
> If you have the Google toolbar installed, you are just seeing the copy 
> of your email that is still on your computer. The first bunch of search 
> results are what Google finds "locally", ie. on your own machine. I 
> doubt strongly that it is finding stuff out "on the web" somewhere 
> unless you are sending to a public list that is visible immediately.
> 
> Scott Anthony