Privacy issues in Ubuntu's IRC channels and Launchpad

[Alan Bell]

On 26/09/13 20:14, hatearchives at openmailbox.org wrote:
> I have 3 "solutions" to my problem:
> 1) Disabling irc logs from indexing.
then googling "site:irclogs.ubuntu.com <bits of a conversation I want to 
find>" will stop working, which will annoy me, and I will wget the whole 
thing and index it on my own server, and then it will be a hassle to 
keep up to date and I will be generally annoyed about the whole situation.
> 2) Deleting my content from archived irc logs.
not going to happen
> 3) Changing nickname in irc logs so it would not map to anything.
not going to happen
>
> Are all these 3 really unrealistic?
>
first one is possible, but it trades off my convenience against your 
wish for retrospective destruction of historical conversations you were 
part of. Google rates new and interesting stuff above old dull stuff, I 
would recommend doing more stuff that Google can see where you 
demonstrate your awesomeness to the world, so that when people Google 
for your nick they find all the new awesome stuff and the older less 
linked to things will fall down the index.

Alan.

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