Geraint and Google Groups

Does anyone, possibly even the man himself, know why none of Geraint Jones' posts seem to show up in
Google Groups? He's there only when quoted by someone else.

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Dave...

 

On Tue, 27 May 2003 02:25:33 -0700, Dave Kahn did issue forth:

> Does anyone, possibly even the man himself, know why none of Geraint Jones' posts seem to show up
> in Google Groups? He's there only when quoted by someone else.

Geraint uses the "X-No-Archive: yes" header in his posts, so they don't get archived by Google.

Huw

 

In article <[email protected]>, dkahn400 @yahoo.co.uk says...
> Does anyone, possibly even the man himself, know why none of Geraint Jones' posts seem to show up
> in Google Groups? He's there only when quoted by someone else.

He includes the following line in his headers:

X-No-Archive: yes

Google Groups respects this and does not archive his posts. The default, if no such line appears, is
no to no-archive.

Colin

 

"Colin Blackburn" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> In article <[email protected]>, dkahn400 @yahoo.co.uk says...
> > Does anyone, possibly even the man himself, know why none of Geraint Jones' posts seem to show
> > up in Google Groups? He's there only when quoted by someone else.
>
> He includes the following line in his headers:
>
> X-No-Archive: yes
>
> Google Groups respects this and does not archive his posts. The default, if no such line appears,
> is no to no-archive.
>

As a matter of interest, Google also provides a tool for posters to remove their own posts, you do
need to use a valid email for this though.

http://services.google.com:8882/urlconsole/controller?cmd=reload&lastcmd=log in

 

Colin Blackburn <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>He includes the following line in his headers:
>
>X-No-Archive: yes
>
>Google Groups respects this and does not archive his posts. The default, if no such line appears,
>is no to no-archive.

It appears that Google doesn't archive even with a header like mine
- which is supposed to specifically state that my articles can be archived, but appears to have
the opposite effect.
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Selah

 

"Frank°" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:<[email protected]>...

> As a matter of interest, Google also provides a tool for posters to remove their own posts, you do
> need to use a valid email for this though.
>
> http://services.google.com:8882/urlconsole/controller?cmd=reload&lastcmd=log in

Thanks, all.

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Dave...

 

Stephen Gower <[email protected]> wrote: ( -- ) Selah

I don't know... when I were a lad, and it were all binary trees round 'ere, it used to be
Exceedingly Bad Form to put someone's name on the subject line of a news posting.

 

On Wed, 28 May 2003 14:08:37 +0000 (UTC), [email protected] (Geraint
Jones) wrote:

>I don't know... when I were a lad, and it were all binary trees round 'ere, it used to be
>Exceedingly Bad Form to put someone's name on the subject line of a news posting.

Really? I thought I knew a little bit about netiquette but I've never come across that one before,
and it seems to happen reasonably often in u.r.c without exciting comment. However, if I offended
you I apologise.

I raised the question as I was wondering why you were being quoted regularly although I never saw
your original posts. It made me wonder what else I was missing. Now I understand how you're doing it
I'm still not sure why.

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Dave...

 

Geraint Jones wrote:

>>... when I were a lad, and it were all binary trees round 'ere, it used to be Exceedingly Bad Form
>>to put someone's name on the subject line of a news posting.

Dave Kahn wrote

> Really? I thought I knew a little bit about netiquette but I've never come across that one before,
> and it seems to happen reasonably often in u.r.c without exciting comment.

Hmm, that's a new on on me too. My name's been in lotsa Subject: headings, never bothered me, even
when I was called a "party doll" in the heat of the last presidential election campaign here in
Yankeeland.

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Sheldon Brown wrote:
> Geraint Jones wrote:
>
> >>... when I were a lad, and it were all binary trees round 'ere, it used to be Exceedingly Bad
> >>Form to put someone's name on the subject line of a news posting.
>
> Dave Kahn wrote
>
> > Really? I thought I knew a little bit about netiquette but I've never come across that one
> > before, and it seems to happen reasonably often in u.r.c without exciting comment.
>
> Hmm, that's a new on on me too. My name's been in lotsa Subject: headings, never bothered me, even
> when I was called a "party doll" in the heat of the last presidential election campaign here in
> Yankeeland.

I've only seen it used in uk.rec.motorcycles where just putting the persons name is used to signify
that they've died.

More recently putting someone's name in a subject can screw up Google Groups searching results. If
you want all posts authored by a person you can end up with the ones with their name in the subject
rather than written by them.
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On Thu, 29 May 2003 09:07:07 +0100, Ben <[email protected]> wrote:

>More recently putting someone's name in a subject can screw up Google Groups searching results. If
>you want all posts authored by a person you can end up with the ones with their name in the subject
>rather than written by them.

The Google Groups argument wouldn't apply in Geraint's case as he keeps his postings out of their
archive anyway. Besides it sounds like a bug that ought really to be fixed by Google. Sheldon is
certainly named in the subject line of many threads. Far from being an insult it's a measure of the
standing he has within the cycling community.

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Dave Kahn <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:<[email protected]>...
> On Thu, 29 May 2003 09:07:07 +0100, Ben <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> >More recently putting someone's name in a subject can screw up Google Groups searching results.
> >If you want all posts authored by a person you can end up with the ones with their name in the
> >subject rather than written by them.

Normally this won't happen from just a name in the subject: heading. I am actually replying via
Google Groups right now, and when I clicked on Dave's name, it placed
"author:[email protected]" in the search box. Thus, it wouldn't find a match for anything that
didn't include the full email address.

> The Google Groups argument wouldn't apply in Geraint's case as he keeps his postings out of their
> archive anyway. Besides it sounds like a bug that ought really to be fixed by Google. Sheldon is
> certainly named in the subject line of many threads. Far from being an insult it's a measure of
> the standing he has within the cycling community.

Aw, shucks! For my own major use of Google Groups, I do a search by my name, but one that drops out
messages that come from me. The filtering is based on the phone number included in my .sig. I keep
readymade links to variations of this search on my Home Base page http://sheldonbrown.com/hb.html so
I can quickly check on what people are attributing to me.

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On Thu, 29 May 2003 02:48:49 GMT, Sheldon Brown <[email protected]> wrote:

>... even when I was called a "party doll" ...
>

Now that is truly cruel.

James "Chip Butty", POD, etc. Hodson

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