[Imc-web] hidden posts on google

[meghan at ucimc.org]

I agree that if we could stop hidden posts from coming up in Google 
searches it would be MUCH preferable to deleting them.

-meghan

On Fri, 15 Oct 2004, Mike Lehman wrote:

> I have had a personal email further explaining the situation with the referenced article:
> http://www.ucimc.org/newswire/display/20228/index.php
>
> Mr. Sword does still make the point that he considers this to be a copyright infraction of his personal corespondence. For myself, I believe that this is still somewhat debatable, especially given our disclaimer that lays responsibility for the content of any post to the person who authored it.
>
> However, I am convinced of Mr. Sword's sincerity and that this article creates an unhelpful situation for him, based on the the disreputable efforts of our well-known spammer, DAN Disinfo. Given that our policy in dealing with DAN has to been to make his efforts as inconsequential as possible while maintaining our open publishing policy, I believe that this fits within the acceptable scope of the other means we have taken to deal with DAN. In order to deprive DAN of any gain from his blatantly abusive practices, I intend to entirely delete the article cited above after 24 hours have passed to give anyone who objects to this a chance to speak up against it.
>
> Mr. Sword also points out something that a few of us have known about, the fact that hidden articles appear in Google searches of our site. If there is some technical fix that can be applied to Dada to prevent such articles from being picked up by search engines, I would assert that we should do so, given that fact that easy access to such hidden articles reflects badly on UC IMC, since most of them are violations of our editorial policies. Given I have no idea how difficult such a proposition to modify the site's software would be, I'll leave that up for geekier types than me to discuss. I am curious how others feel about this situation.
> Mike Lehman
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