On 2007-10-19, Bob Engelhardt wrote:
Rex wrote:
... For that matter, Google the email address and see what
comes up.

Out of curiosity, I Googled my email address. There were 23 hits, all
of them copies of my NG posts, mostly RCM. These are web sites, with
copies of my posts in them! In fact, one site is nothing but copies of
RCM posts:
http://i r o n--steel.blogspot.com/

Why would anyone bother when the posts can be read directly? If not
from a news server, from Google:
http://groups.google.com/

This is called "webspam", or "scraping". They profit from visitors
referred by search engines when the visotors click on the ads.

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