Did you take a look at Google's options for blocking indexing of sites <http://www.google.com/remove.html> ? Would any of them work? 

Dan Robinson
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: LISTSERV site administrators' forum
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Stephen C. Nill
> Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2004 8:47 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Google, the Deep Web, and LISTSERV Archives
> 
> 
> [Cross-posted to LSTSRV-L and LSTOWN-L.]
> 
> Colleagues,
> 
> I've checked the archives of LSTSRV-L and LSTOWN-L and 
> believe this is the
> first time this has been discussed....
> 
> Google now appears to be able to search what has been termed the "deep
> web," meaning that it is able to access and pull data from
> dynamically-generated web pages such as LISTSERV archives.
> 
> We discovered this when we began to receive requests from 
> list subscribers
> to remove their postings from our archives.  They explained 
> that when they
> Google their names (yes, "to Google" is now a verb), their 
> postings come up
> and often lead the list of search results.
> 
>