2. While IRC isn't private, you should be made aware if someone's logging it, and frankly I'm not really in favor of logging it in any case, as it detracts from the more informal nature of it.
Yeah I do agree to a certain extent.
Forum posts are obviously going to be archived, and examined, and remain public.
Chat-rooms seem more of a grey area to me. I can see enormous use to archiving and mining the data, but on the other hand it does look slightly creepy being able to search and find some inane conversation I might have had months ago when I was in a silly mood.
While I do sort of agree, I learned long ago that nearly all channels are logged anyway since years by some channelbots. Often enough including statistics which will tell how many lines you wrote, when you where last online and that you where the guy using the most sad smilies this week.
I just searched for my handle and I can see all my previous conversations. This is nuts.. and really cool.
By looking at the tag cloud on the homepage irseek.com, it's nice to see that the unix world is strongly represented!
Bottler authors wanted channels to "opt out" by putting strings in the topic, but most channels instead implemented scripts that detect and kickban Bottlers.
it was easier for botler since it send requests to all users of the channel. Detecting bits that simply sit there and monitor all data might be harder. Although this might be a violation of the TOS on some networks.
There was lots of similar complaining when Google started indexing usenet, the complaining will go away and it will be a very useful service soon enough.
Note on other past complaints: Facebook is open to all colleges; Facebook is open to all people; Facebook has news feed; Twitter encourages narcissism...
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