On Wed, 03 Nov 2010 21:32:07 -0400, aemeijers
wrote:

On 11/3/2010 2:43 PM, architecturalrealms wrote:
responding to
http://www.homeownershub.(snip)

This issue has come up before- I Googled myself (hairy palms be damned),
and of the several thousand hits to my name, well over half were AHR
posts that had been mirrored to 'forums' on various web sites. Us
regulars and semi-regulars are in effect providing free content to these
sites, and making them look a lot more active than they really are. I'd
not be surprised if they cook their books to make each harvested AHR
message look like a page hit, to pump up their ad rates.

Anybody have any ideas how to counteract this? Maybe a standard tag line
above the sig delimiter saying 'This post was made to the actual Usenet,
not to a stinkin' web forum! If you are reading this on a web site,
don't assume I have anything to do with this company or these people'.
Or is their harvesting software smart enough to strip off stuff like that?

Too bad you can't copyright Usenet posts....

The cows are out of the gate. Web based sites that have ported to NNTP
servers are here to stay (Google, Sucko Company, others and the one
you mention). A couple of users here posts disclaimers about how a
poster should find out how to get to USENET in the traditional way. It
will not work in the long run...

"...counteract this?" Only thing I can think of is _not_ to reply to
postings that are from web-based sites. That requires looking a each
header and not responding. Even that won't work as they have the NNTP
servers ported and get all the threads, anyway.

'This post was made to the actual Usenet, not to a stinkin' web
forum! If you are reading this on a web site, don't assume I have
anything to do with this company or these people'.

Oren ---- malformed public duty gland wink