do not want you to archive my article(s)! How can I prevent messages that I post from being archived on Google Groups? Google supports the 'X-No-archive: yes' header, and we will not archive any articles that contain this text either in the header or in the first line of the message body
Why do you not just use that method of stopping sites archiving your posts? It is I believe usenet convention to use that method.
Have you complained to google asking them not to archive yours? After all google and their shareholders make money off them.
Which is what the "X-no-archive: Yes" header is for. So long as they honour that (and requests to remove postings) I couldn't care less who hoovers up Usenet.
It gave a double entry into uk.d-i-y, an alternative to Google. If they honoured the no archive and other simple bits, I doubt no one would mind. They went about it in the wrong way.
The biggest nuisance was that people would register and use the forum to post. This would break the text of the posts they were replying to, including the headers, meaning that some news servers and definitely google would not reconstruct the threads properly. Quoting conventions also went completely out the window.
I don't have a problem with someone (e.g. google) archiving usenet groups, but I do have a problem with a poorly scripted site which results in bad newsgroup posts which then disrupt the original group.
For an example of broken headers in responses, see:
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the broken response to Andy Hall's message in this thread:
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