Re: making posts unreadable for google groupers?

Ralph Fox wrote:
On Tue, 18 Sep 2007 15:35:20 -0700, in message
<fcpjra02j6n@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, me@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

On Tue, 18 Sep 2007 20:13:24 -0000, Anonymous <nobody@xxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Is there anything like the "web tv stationery" header trick for
making posts unreadable on google groups?


Use Rot-13.


With a Rot-13 bookmarklet, one can very easily read Rot-13 in Google
groups. Simply select the Rot-13 text in the web page, click the
bookmarklet, and the text in the web page changes to/from Rot-13.


Here is a Rot-13 bookmarklet that works with Google Groups

<snip>

Many GG users aren't up to doing this sort of thing, but some are. If
the OP only wants to hide his message from many (bit not all) GG
users, then Rot-13 is fine. But if the OP wants to hide the message
from every last GG user, then Rot-13 may not be the choice.

Unfortunately, viewing the larger picture shows this: When people use
such kludges to obscure the content of their Usenet messages, they are
handing the Google Groupers a WIN, by requiring NON-Google-Groupers to
change THEIR Usenet participation habits by adding another step.
This is a bad idea: giving Google Groupers any wins is counterproductive.


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