Re: Mail Archive copycat site

Just a quick update.  Following contacts with him and his ISP, he has 
removed the most obvious copied portions from his FAQ.

Jeff


Jeff Marshall wrote:

> 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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