Howdy!

The problem is a social one.

Consider going to a party with lots of conversation. Surreptitously record the conversations for future reference. Make use of those recordings. Watch your back.

That is the essence of the issue.

ChatterBox carries an expectation that the conversation is ephemeral. The FullPage Chat only carries about the last eight to ten minutes, or the last fifteen messages (or so). Anything older is lost, probably by design. Other chat clients and history tools work to try to preserve a larger window, but that simply facilitates putting things into context when the conversation is roaring along.

There is no mechanism available to prevent archiving CB traffic for longer periods, save social pressure. I suppose something could be done, with much work, to try to discern monitor-bots from simple CB clients, but I'm not hinting at advocating going there.

Google is not systematically archiving the traffic; it happens to catch snippets as it spiders about (so far as I know).

It's not a matter of secrecy; it's a matter of social responsibility.

yours,
Michael

In reply to Re^2: CB history and Google's cache by herveus
in thread CB history and Google's cache by EdwardG

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