Which news groups are copied?

__/ [ John Bokma ] on Tuesday 22 August 2006 21:58 \__

Big Bill <kruse (AT) cityscape (DOT) co.uk> wrote:

On 22 Aug 2006 19:10:35 GMT, John Bokma <john (AT) castleamber (DOT) com> wrote:

Big Bill <kruse (AT) cityscape (DOT) co.uk> wrote:

We know that ours is, several times over. How might I find out which
others are? Aide from joining them all and posting, then searching for
dupes of my posts?

Subscribe to a group or use GG and find a message that's 2-3 days old.
Copy a sentence from that article in Google search.

A lot of Usenet is copied to sites, some groups pop up on tens of sites.
But there is no one place to check this, since a site doing this often
picks just a handful of groups that match the theme of the site.

IT related groups are very popular of course.

Yeah, but what could I usefully contribute? :-(

Questions? Like: is there software that helps me to catalogue fine art?

I can think of JLA Forums as an example of a site that makes it seem as
though UseNetters are site subscribers. Very cheeky. In another group, one
of the posters calls them thieves in the sig, which gives them bad
reputation and had them contact the person in question.

best wishes,

Roy

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Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups (AT) schestowitz (DOT) com> wrote:

I can think of JLA Forums as an example of a site that makes it seem
as though UseNetters are site subscribers. Very cheeky. In another
group, one of the posters calls them thieves in the sig, which gives
them bad reputation and had them contact the person in question.

Yeah, I was thinking some time ago to just put some bad words in the sig
:-)

Maybe a good thing if a small group starts to complain with the hosting
providers of "boards" that do nasty tricks like you describe, or use
nofollow.

Complaints from 5-8 people would be enough I guess.

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