Re^2: CB history and Google's cache

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

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Re^3: CB history and Google's cache by eric256 (Parson) on Sep 14, 2004 at 14:12 UTC
My point was that even though people shouldn't record conversations at parties (and maybe therefore the CB), it doesn't mean you should act as if everything you do and say is lost forever 10 minutes later. We may want it to be ephemeral but that doesn't mean you should count on it. The same goes for both cases, it doesn't mean the person doing the recording is right, legal, moral. I just mean that when you open your mouth, or use your fingers you are should take responsibility for what you say, and hope that others will notice out of context recordings (or chat logs) when they see them. ___________ Eric Hodges	[reply]

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Re^3: CB history and Google's cache
by eric256 (Parson) on Sep 14, 2004 at 14:12 UTC

My point was that even though people shouldn't record conversations at parties (and maybe therefore the CB), it doesn't mean you should act as if everything you do and say is lost forever 10 minutes later. We may want it to be ephemeral but that doesn't mean you should count on it. The same goes for both cases, it doesn't mean the person doing the recording is right, legal, moral. I just mean that when you open your mouth, or use your fingers you are should take responsibility for what you say, and hope that others will notice out of context recordings (or chat logs) when they see them.

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Eric Hodges

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