Comments on: Why You Need To Keep Your (Online) Nose Clean

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 20 Oct 2006 08:36:00 +0000

I lost a webdesign contract once because the client found out my username on the Sitepoint forums and found all my posts. I had registered back there when I was just a newbie, so he found all my (2 year old) newbie questions I posted, and got the impression I was still a newbie and cancelled the project!

By: Stuart

Stuart — Fri, 20 Oct 2006 07:28:00 +0000

My partner was doing a search for her name the other day and one of the first things listed on page 1 was some posts to a discussion group we had made when we first went online in 1996.

By: Anthony

Anthony — Fri, 20 Oct 2006 06:15:00 +0000

No “Could be there forever” about it! Thanks to archiving services like the Wayback Machine (http://www.archive.org) and the Google Cache, pretty much anything you put online will always be accessible to others, even years later when you’ve forgotten all about it.