Addendum to "Why not archive"

[Tom (archive)]

Perhaps to foil spammers? Tom

 

[SteveB]

Perhaps to foil spammers? Tom

How is it possible not to have your stuff archived?

STeve

 

[Tom (archive)]

But, I ask "why?" Especially you, DJ. Why not archived? This is referring to Google groups, of course. Tom

 

[badgolferman]

But, I ask "why?" Especially you, DJ. Why not archived? This is referring to Google groups, of course. Tom

It's an attempt to remain slightly more anonymous. Often times people have flame wars in groups and someone may not want their words to come back to haunt them so they insert that command in their header. That way Google will remove their post after so many days and so-and-so can't post a Google link to their comment from a few weeks ago.

 

[Dan C]

If you are asking because my reply was set to "no archive", I did it as an experiment, to see how it showed up in the headers. AFAIK, all my posts are archived. Otherwise, how would I remember what I've

So, why does this post of yours also have the "no-archive" set?

 

[Blue]

Oops, forgot to turn it off...

DJ

How does one turn it on in Outlook Express?

 

[badgolferman]

it >>> as an experiment, to see how it showed up in the headers. AFAIK, all >>> my posts are archived. Otherwise, how would I remember what I've

How does one turn it on in Outlook Express?

Outlook Express does not have the setting to enable/disable this request.