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
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