ark@research.att.com (Andrew Koenig) writes:
>Well yes and no.  If I were looking for another job, I would
>expect any prospective employer to look in, say, DejaNews to
>see what I has posted on Usenet in the past.

In fact I _did_ apply for another job this year,
which I was awarded and am very pleased about.
I deliberately drew their attention to some of my postings,
and they promised to look at them.

Note too that there is a project to capture _everything_ on the web;
it has been done once before, it was being done recently, and it will
be done again in the future.  This is no longer a transient medium.
-- 
John �neas Byron O'Keefe; 1921/02/04-1997/09/27; TLG,TLTA,BBTNOTL.
Richard A. O'Keefe; RMIT Comp.Sci; http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/%7Eok