[BNM] Privacy on Yahoo and Google Groups

[Paul Silver]

On Wed, 31 Jan 2007 14:43:51 +0000, "Glenn Williams" said:
> A simple question to which I hope there is a simple answer:
> If I set up a members only Yahoo or Google group are they completely 
> safe from robots and search engines? I'm assuming that there is no 
> chance of any sensitive stuff turning up by someone doing a Google 
> search for example but would like to know how secure these groups are.

On both services, you can set them as private so the archives aren't
available to the public, and I've never been able to get in to one by
doing any searches.

However, you are using a service from a search engine, so there's always
the chance someone will bugger up somewhere and expose all the files at
some point. I can't see a way around that unless someone can recommend a
forum service which has good security - things like phpBB can have
members-only areas which won't be spiderable, so that would give you
what you want.

HTH

Paul
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