Dear kernelnewbies team, please note that this is not a privacy flame or *anything* like that, just a slight concern I have... I am aware that the #kernelnewbies IRC channel is logged and have in fact used the logs at: http://vengeance.et.tudelft.nl/~smoke/log/kernelnewbies/ myself to look things up. Great resource! :-) However, someone just made me aware that even google searches those logs. If you for example type "grub mem=nopentium" in a google search box, you are presented with a link to: http://kernelnewbies.org/logs/index.php3?depth=3&year=2002&month=February&day=2 and I can't say that I was aware of that and am in fact not particularly sure if I'm all that pleased with it. As soon as something gets published on the web in a "bot accesible manner", harvester bots will for example find it to be a great resource. Perhaps it was simply naive of me but I haven't been a paranoid IRC user upto now; if someone asks for email adress, they usually get it and so on. Additionally, if some poor newbie comes across the logs during a websearch, he might even be intimidated out of coming to the channel itself, knowing that everything they say is going to be google-archived for all posterity. (yes, I know it's just nicknames). As said, just a slight concern; at the very least I know it just made *me* feel less free on the channel. If google-accesible logs are deemed a good thing tho, would it be a good idea to make this clearer on kernelnewbies.org?. If you click the link to the logs there, you are put in an "ftp-like" directory which I don't think many people (not me at least :-) will immediately recognize as something google will also pick up... Otherwise... many thanks for a lot of valuable kernelnewbies resources! Rene Herman -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
