On Sat, 4 Apr 2015, John Robertson wrote:

On 04/04/2015 3:33 PM, bud-- wrote:

http://www.edaboard.co.uk/cable-trac...g-t527612.html

The authors look awful familiar...

This is, in fact, sci.electronics.repair, copied without attribution by
another site.


That's just annoying! It costs nothing to attribute a source...

Except, there are sites that are in it for advertising money, and they
steal contents from elsewhere in order to 'create" contents.

I saw it a couple of years ago during our Fringe Festival. One site came
up early on searches, but all it did was agregate content from elsewhere,
even changing the content so anytime "mysite.com" was mentioned it said
instead "westealyoursite.com".

I have no idea if that's the case here, but it is possible.

It's certainly not uncommon to come across sites with "boards" that are
actually access to usenet, but they don't necessarily say it's usenet.

Michael