Re: Removal of postings
On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 11:11:21PM +0200, Lars Wirzenius wrote:
> ti, 2004-01-06 kello 17:05, Mike Dresser kirjoitti:
> > I find it funny that the first hit on google for "SouthWest Century" is a
> > debian.org mailing list reply about their spamming. Believe me, if I
> > don't know who a company is, and I google their name and find something
> > like that, they're right off the list of people to buy from.
>
> On the other hand, as soon as something is mentioned on a Debian mailing
> list, it often jumps up very high in Google results. Debian mailing list
> archives are linked to widely on the net and this seems to raise results
> higher on Google.
Oh, well, now I feel a little sympathetic for them -- it's not really
fair for some random quote by a former employee to be "your companies
image." Sure, lifes tough, and it's not really Debian's responsibility,
but that's not really fair to a company. The punishment doesn't really
fit the crime.
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