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by James Robertson.
Original Post: Be careful what you write...
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I came across two interesting posts over the last two days, both of which the authors eventually thought better of - they deleted them. I'm not going to link to the cached posts; the authors deleted them from their blogs, and it's not the content of the posts I'm really interested in here. What is interesting to me is this:
For blogs, there's Feedster. Feedster is a lot like Google, but focused on blogs. Like Google, Feedster has a cache
There are lots and lots of people reading blogs via aggregators. These aggregators tend to cache posts locally.
What does that mean? It means that comments you post - even briefly - will likely get cached all over the place. Even if you later regret what you wrote and delete it, lots of people will still have full access to your full, original comments. Much like email after you hit send, you should operate under the assumption that anything you post is permanent.
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