Mail Archive copycat site

We thought it'd be a good idea to let users of The Mail Archive know 
about a copycat site that we are dealing with.  Back in April we found 
that someone in Australia had copied a significant portion of the 
mail-archive.com website and then changed the logo at the top and 
inserted his own ads on the pages.  We weren't too thrilled with this 
and his ISP helped remove it (the logo he used happened to resemble a 
swastika, too).

We've found that he recently put his site back up under a new name 
(opensubscriber.com; it was diezmil.com the first time).  This time it 
looks like he's actually running some archiving code (perhaps our GPL'd 
code; not sure) instead of simply copying our web pages.  Running 
another archiving service is in itself fine; we happily recommend 
respectable mailing list archivers like gmane.org and 
marc.theaimsgroup.com.  These sites are run by people that have put in a 
lot of hard work on creative and original archiving approaches, and they 
do a terrific job.  The issue we're having with this copycat site is 
that he's directly copied FAQ entries from our site - along with wording 
on the front page - and claimed the copyright on it.  He has also seeded 
his mailing lists with our list-of-lists, which is the main reason to 
alert all of you subscribed to this gossip mailing list.  It's up to you 
whether or not you like your mailing list being archived on this other 
website, and what you do about it.  But again, if you are looking to 
mirror your archives on sites more than The Mail Archive, we recommend 
gmane.org and marc.theaimsgroup.com.

We'll be pursuing the copyright issue on this other site.

Thanks.

Jeff Marshall
[email protected]


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