@nospam: "Regardless of where you are reading this, I post my comments on the
rec.autos.tech newsgroup....ONLY. 
I have discovered that autoforums.com and talkaboutautos.com are two of
what I suspect is many forums that are plagiarizing material from this
newsgroup.
I am curious if anybody else knows other forums that are doing the same.
I discovered the talkaboutautos connection in a poster's header.
These forums are selling advertising based on clicks, and they are using
newsgroup material to generate these clicks. 
Perhaps, when we discover another plaigiarist, we could click onto their
advertisers and let them know where the content of the forum actually comes
from. The forum doesn't really have the support/traffic it appears to have.
I've never been into talkaboutautos.com before today, but I have been
posted there all along.
Let's build a list of plagiarists, and let their advertisers know what we
know.....
If we build the list kenneth00@example.com, it will automatically play on
the plagiarist sites, so list them - and perhaps some of their key
advertisers - right here. They'll handle our distribution for us.
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PLAGIARIST LIST
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Google Groups is another, but plagiarism is not exactly what happens. You
see, the Usenet is a PUBLIC use service and the posts to any news group can
be carried by any number of news servers (even AOL). These new Web Based
GUIs are just another way of offering the news groups to the public. No
rights have been violated. I do agree that their use is a poor way to read
and post to UseNet, and  they are often used by clueless web surfers who
have no Idea of what a Use Net is or what it is for, and some of the web
based interfaces do a piss poor job of collecting and distributing the news
groups. This is just another case of the internet being used for financial
gain and in my mind goes in the same box as spamming and phishing.
Kevin Mouton
Automotive Technology Instructor
"If women don't find you handsome, they should at least find you handy"
Red Green"
    @nospam: "Kevin <email_address> wrote in article
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What I find so onerous is the fact that any perceived attempt at
advertising here on rec.autos.tech is jumped upon by the self-appointed
'net cops, yet our thoughts, comments, ideas, suggestions, etc. are the
base for someone else making a profit from advertising.
I've got to believe that slipping a little ad into one's sig has much more
value than the exposure on the usenet.
Due to publishing contracts, I am not allowed to offer ANY automotive
advice under my own name. Others own my name in that context.
Were it not for that, I might consider developing a sig with a tag-line
message to take advantage of the many places my stuff seems to be
published.
"Call on us for all your "*****" needs in the Northeast....""
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