[Novalug] answerpot webpage

[Mark Smith]

so, now i can search for novalug and answerpot and this discussion will
be archived in answerpot.  :-)

public being equal, i thought we had to use a userid/password to access
the web archives?  or is this just one of the email addresses on the
mailing list?

On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 02:01:52PM +0000, Jason Kohles wrote:
> There are dozens (or more) of websites doing this.  They subscribe to all
> the public mailing lists they can find and republish the list traffic on
> their website hoping to attract Google searchers so they can bombard them
> with ads.  Since the list is public there isn't a whole lot you can do
> about it.  Ironically there probably isn't anything you want to do about
> it, the more sites like this spring up the more their Google search rank
> suffers, since they are all publishing identical information, and that
> pushes them further down in the search results..
> 
> Unlike many of the websites that use this tactic, Answerpot at least has
> information in their FAQ about how to get a mailing list removed (whether
> it works or not is another story)..
> 
> -- 
> Jason Kohles
> Palantir Technologies | UNIX Systems Engineer
> jkohles at palantir.com  | 703.957.5784
> 
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> On 1/10/12 4:22 AM, "Mark Smith" <mark at winksmith.com> wrote:
> 
> i was searching for an answer to a ufw question and found answerpot.com.
> nothing particularly special about it except i found emails from novalug
> in there which was a bit of a surprise.  this website is lightly loaded
> with advertising.
> 
> http://answerpot.com/showthread.php?1286065-ufw+applications.d+syntax
> 
> the original mail headers are obscured, but the body of the messages
> include signatures and quoted messages which are not obscured.  i readily
> recognize myself, jason kohles, james ewing cottrell 3rd and possibly
> others.
> 
> is this expected?  i didn't know novalug was a for profit email listing?
> 
> -- 
> Mark Smith
> mark at winksmith.com
> mark at tux.org
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