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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