Home-built Computers OT:Why my posts to these USENET groups appearing on Web? Forums?

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OT:Why my posts to these USENET groups appearing on Web? Forums? MachineMessiah 07-07-07
Posted by MachineMessiah on July 7, 2007, 8:08 pm
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I just found some posts I made back in October to alt.comp.hardware,
alt.comp.hardware.homebuilt on the following web sites:
http://www.wirelessforums.org/
http://www.epanorama.net/phpBB2/index.php
What's up with that?

Posted by Grinder on July 7, 2007, 9:46 pm
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MachineMessiah wrote:
> I just found some posts I made back in October to alt.comp.hardware,
> alt.comp.hardware.homebuilt on the following web sites:
> http://www.wirelessforums.org/
> http://www.epanorama.net/phpBB2/index.php
> What's up with that?

Some sites pretend to have forums by ripping off usenet postings, or by
just making their site a lame interface to those groups.

Posted by CBFalconer on July 7, 2007, 10:43 pm
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MachineMessiah wrote:
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> I just found some posts I made back in October to alt.comp.hardware,
> alt.comp.hardware.homebuilt on the following web sites:
> http://www.wirelessforums.org/
> http://www.epanorama.net/phpBB2/index.php
> What's up with that?

Why complain? You are getting publicity. The moment you put a
post on Usenet it was totally public anyhow.

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Posted by SteveH on July 8, 2007, 7:50 am
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MachineMessiah wrote:
> I just found some posts I made back in October to alt.comp.hardware,
> alt.comp.hardware.homebuilt on the following web sites:
> http://www.wirelessforums.org/
> http://www.epanorama.net/phpBB2/index.php
> What's up with that?

Not such a Machine Messiah then?

SteveH



Posted by John McGaw on July 8, 2007, 11:16 am
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MachineMessiah wrote:
> I just found some posts I made back in October to alt.comp.hardware,
> alt.comp.hardware.homebuilt on the following web sites:
> http://www.wirelessforums.org/
> http://www.epanorama.net/phpBB2/index.php
> What's up with that?

You put them out in a public forum where there are no real limits upon
what use might be made of them. If someone felt like it they could just
as well translate them into Latvian haiku and tattoo them on an elephant
in the name of free expression. If you don't want to be exposed then
don't expose yourself.

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John McGaw
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