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Date: Wed, 14 May 1997 16:52:10 -0400
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From: Todd H[] 
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To: tskirvin@uiuc.edu
Subject: Re: Your derogatory page
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Sorry my earlier message was so terse- busy day, gonna be a busier
week.  I've got a hardware/software changeover to do this weekend, and
if it doens't happen right, I'm liable for $30 million in product loss.

In a 'blow-off-steam' break, I looked at your message again:

> But I can change the filename of the old files to anon.* instead of
> todd.*, which oughta screw up the engines a bit, and further
> pages won't include mention of xxxxxxxxx.com or the name 'H[]'
> (and the current pages will remove it - x it out, but remove it).

Tell ya what- here's a better way, that'll be less obtrusive.  Change
all incidences of 'H[]' to just 'H', and change all incidences of
'xxxxxxxxx' or 'xxxxxxxxx' to 'dd'.  Move the pages from 'todd.*' to
'toddh.*'- that'll remove the current links in the search engines.  Be
sure to whack the old copies- the way you've got it now, a search engine
will still find the backup copies, because you haven't protected your
directories with empty 'index.html' files.
 
>         The fact that I was threatened will probably still make it to a
> page, but it, again, will only mention 'anonymous' - not your business,
> which is what you seem to want to protect, and not your last name.

That'd be fine. Thanks.

> The listing of killfiled people *will* say "Todd H[]" in it (you've
> previously said you're okay with this), but will still not link to
> drathaar.com - I want that page to be pure, unexpurgated history.

So long as you don't change it *at all*, other than the link address. 
The main reason it doesn't show up on search engines now is that you've
got a *very* slight misspelling of my name.  I'll let this one go so
long as the misspelling stays.
 
>         Obviously, this will take a couple of days (two finals to go), but
> if you agree to drop this I'll make sure it happens soon.  Also, you might
> want to note that I'd like to be able to keep the name "Todd" on even the
> main page, but I kindof hope you're over that...

By the 'main page', do you mean the one currently titled with my full
name?  If so, then we're agreed- you can keep it so long as my last name
doesn't show, and the file is renamed to remove current search links.
 
>         So, will this do?

I think we're agreed on technical details, I sure hope so.  FWIW, I find
this whole mess to be more a fault of the damned search engines than
anything else- I have a sore spot for those damn things nowadays,
because they tend to give bad information more often than good, and with
the 'newbieness level' on the net rising daily, it's something a website
administrator has to watch regularly.  I'd like to see search engines
required to ask permission for each page they index, rather than the
current mess we've got.

In any case, I'm going to be tied up quite tight for a few days, so I'll
likely be offline.  If you can get the changes made by middle of next
week, I'll check 'em out, and hopefully we can part ways peacefully
then.  Thanks for your effort.

-- 
Todd++;
vom Dixie xxxxxxxxxs
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