How do I prevent my Usenet posts from being archived?
Some people are surprised to learn that all of their usenet news group postings for the last few years are permanently archived, indexed and available to anyone on the internet by services like dejanews (www.dejanews.com).
There are ways to prevent your articles from being archived, at least on a limited basis. Dejanews has a mechanism to prevent their service from archiving your postings if you wish. See attached for details. Other web search engines may not follow the same policy, but it's a start anyway.
Don't take this to mean that by using dejanews X-No-Archive feature you will have achieved any kind of privacy. News groups are completely public. It is estimated that 22,000,000 people read usenet (Source: dejanews). This is only one small measure that might prevent one service from archiving your news group postings permanently.
For more information on dejanews' policies, see:
http://www.dejanews.com/info/policy.shtml
X-No-Archive
All that being said, we understand that some users may not have forseen that such archiving tools as Deja News would eventually exist when they originally published to Usenet; we certainly have no desire to archive a person's posts if he/she doesn't want them archived. For this reason, we invented the x-no-archive standard for users excluding posts from Usenet search engines such as Deja News.
Including the following x-headers in any post you make
x-no-archive: yes
will cause the article to be ignored by our indexing software, and it will not be searchable by Deja News users. If your newsbrowser/mail program is not capable of attaching x-headers, you can also use the above line as the first line of the body of your article, and the result will be the same.
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