[Wolves] Off topic - travelwm

David Goodwin david.goodwin at openminds.co.uk
Thu Jan 15 16:17:32 GMT 2004


> Oh, I would like to thank the person who forwarded my email address to the express and star.
 > The email address I use in here is only for here. I wonder if 
anything I posted
 > previously in here will be in the paper soon.
> 
> What was actually said on the radio5 live show ?
> 

Hi Gary,

Others might proove me incorrect, as is often the case, but I believe 
there is nothing stopping anyone from the "outside" world from reading 
messages posted to this list - see 
http://mailman.lug.org.uk/pipermail/wolves/ ... I'm guessing that it's 
not being spidered by search engines however as I can't find anything in 
google about any of the topics mentioned so far in the list... so it is 
likely that someone "leaked" your address to a news paper. And there's 
not much stopping a reporter from reading everything you've posted so 
far.....


Regardless of the ethics of leaking your address, I would point out that 
if you'd bothered to write a 10 line html file as an index to the site, 
with a note that the real travelwm site is "here" you would not have had 
any problems.


You've yet to explain/give a valid reason for the domain, and 
considering travelwm is plastered on busses / papers etc, and is almost 
a house hold name in the area, it's unlikely that you would have much 
chance.


See also :


http://www.ananova.com/business/story/sm_854950.html?menu=




David.



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