# Stealing from the SDMB? Metatus.com **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 28, 2002, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stealing-from-the-sdmb-metatus-com/126000 "2002-08-28T22:08:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Berkut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a88e57/32.png) [@Berkut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Berkut)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2002, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stealing-from-the-sdmb-metatus-com/126000/21 "2002-08-29T01:29:37Z")
Found out that they are notorious spammers based in Hong Kong. Do a quick Google or Google Groups seacrh on “[metatus.com](http://metatus.com)”. They have been harvesting addresses from usenet for some time, apparently. If they are lifting posts from here, I am sure they have someone who checks this board often. They are probably scurrying around like roaches trying to delete all the stolen material. I guess that will leave them with about 10 posts, total 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Batsinma\_Belfry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ea5d25/32.png) [@Batsinma\_Belfry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Batsinma_Belfry)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2002, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stealing-from-the-sdmb-metatus-com/126000/22 "2002-08-29T01:53:59Z")
Hey! Now when the hamsters get slow we can dart over there wthout all the waiting. 😃 ::d&r:: ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2002, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stealing-from-the-sdmb-metatus-com/126000/23 "2002-08-29T01:55:53Z")
This all begs the question: Why do this? ---
**Author:** ![brachyrhynchos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/brachyrhynchos/32/376_2.png) [@brachyrhynchos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brachyrhynchos)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2002, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stealing-from-the-sdmb-metatus-com/126000/24 "2002-08-29T01:59:22Z")
Wow, their hamsters are so fast that they can even simulpost with the OP (headphone thread). Now THAT’S _fast!_ Can we trade ours in for one of theirs? ---
**Author:** ![butter\_pie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/aca169/32.png) [@butter\_pie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/butter_pie)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2002, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stealing-from-the-sdmb-metatus-com/126000/25 "2002-08-29T03:24:22Z")
Perhaps they have some kind of script running that’s just automatically grabbing and mirroring the content. Unless their ISP or hosting is physically here, it may be difficult to take legal action against them. ---
**Author:** ![Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e36b37/32.png) [@Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airman_Doors_USAF)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2002, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stealing-from-the-sdmb-metatus-com/126000/26 "2002-08-29T03:40:18Z")
Oh, I registered there just for laughs. Wanna know what’s in the “Members Only” forum? No you don’t. It’s all explicit sex talk. **Tuba** , get 'em. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2002, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stealing-from-the-sdmb-metatus-com/126000/27 "2002-08-29T04:22:49Z")
Now hold your horses. This might not be a bad thing. If the SDMB suffers a heart attack again and information is lost, this site is storing it for us automatically and free. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2002, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stealing-from-the-sdmb-metatus-com/126000/28 "2002-08-29T04:26:34Z")
Hey, in their version of The Pit there is a thread that was started by **Persephone**. Is it ‘our’ much beloved **Persephone**? ---
**Author:** ![White\_Lightning](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@White\_Lightning](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/White_Lightning)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2002, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stealing-from-the-sdmb-metatus-com/126000/29 "2002-08-29T05:01:08Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by **jinwicked** \* > Perhaps they have some kind of script running that’s just automatically grabbing and mirroring the content. Not if the stolen posts have been edited to remove any reference to the SDMB. ---
**Author:** ![Wearia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/13edae/32.png) [@Wearia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wearia)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2002, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stealing-from-the-sdmb-metatus-com/126000/30 "2002-08-29T05:10:10Z")
WTF? That is fricken crazy! Why would anyone copy posts onto their own board? I’m scared now… ---
**Author:** ![zev\_steinhardt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/97f17d/32.png) [@zev\_steinhardt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zev_steinhardt)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2002, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stealing-from-the-sdmb-metatus-com/126000/31 "2002-08-29T05:11:57Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by White Lightning \* > \*\*Not if the stolen posts have been edited to remove any reference to the SDMB. \*\* Yeah, but to remove references to the SDMB is only a very short Perl program. Zev Steinhardt ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2002, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stealing-from-the-sdmb-metatus-com/126000/32 "2002-08-29T05:12:12Z")
Mods - would you get pissed off if I started a thread about how much Metatus sucks, just to see if it showed up over there? Wait - I mean, another thread. Besides this one. Aw, crap. Never mind. ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2002, 5:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stealing-from-the-sdmb-metatus-com/126000/33 "2002-08-29T05:52:31Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Smeghead \* > \*\*Mods - would you get pissed off if I started a thread about how much Metatus sucks, just to see if it showed up over there? > > Wait - I mean, another thread. Besides this one. Aw, crap. Never mind. \*\* Recursion is a beautiful thing. ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Torque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2002, 7:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stealing-from-the-sdmb-metatus-com/126000/34 "2002-08-29T07:21:53Z")
Gotta love their [posting rules](http://www.metatus.com/forum/eng/policy.php): > [@](#): > > By posting on METATUS you must agree to NOT to use our service to: > > … > > 1. forge headers or otherwise manipulate identifying information in order to disguise and/or with the effect of disguising the origin of any Content transmitted through the Service; > > 2. upload, post, email or otherwise make available or transmit any Content that you do not have a right to transmit under any law or under contractual or fiduciary relationships (such as inside information, proprietary and confidential information learned or disclosed as part of employment relationships or under nondisclosure agreements); > > 3. upload, post, email or otherwise make available or transmit any Content that infringes any patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright or other proprietary rights (“Rights”) of any party… I think that’s hypocrisy I hear dripping… ---
**Author:** ![jackelope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a6a055/32.png) [@jackelope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackelope)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2002, 8:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stealing-from-the-sdmb-metatus-com/126000/35 "2002-08-29T08:18:12Z")
I say we go over there and throw toilet paper ALL OVER THEIR YARD! ---
**Author:** ![hawthorne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@hawthorne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hawthorne)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2002, 9:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stealing-from-the-sdmb-metatus-com/126000/36 "2002-08-29T09:21:08Z")
Looks like we should have gone with the tin-foil hat smiley. ---
**Author:** ![Fern\_Forest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@Fern\_Forest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fern_Forest)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2002, 10:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stealing-from-the-sdmb-metatus-com/126000/37 "2002-08-29T10:28:24Z")
Actually what would have been funny, although it’s much too late to do it, is to go there and repost this OP only minus all SDMB references. Certain hilarity. ---
**Author:** ![SpaceDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spacedog/32/9932_2.png) [@SpaceDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpaceDog)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2002, 10:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stealing-from-the-sdmb-metatus-com/126000/38 "2002-08-29T10:36:10Z")
I was just checking out the site and I saw this … > [@](#): > > The newest registered user is Thread thief … anyone willing to own up to that ? SD ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2002, 10:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stealing-from-the-sdmb-metatus-com/126000/39 "2002-08-29T10:37:21Z")
I wonder if it’s connected to the one before that, “truth will out”? ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2002, 10:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stealing-from-the-sdmb-metatus-com/126000/40 "2002-08-29T10:41:09Z")
I think the SDMB is in deep trouble. Check out the standard of debate we’re up against. > [@](#): > > Sorry to inform you but Euros are not liked. They are considered arrogant, effeminate, and lazy. And, they complain and whine too much about nothing. Nobody likes an uppity whiny bitch. > [@](#): > > Fury Unwired > Guest > Mon Aug 26, 2002 9:20 am > > * * * > > Richard TAWNN wrote: > > 1. America’s dependance on economic imperialism (International Monetary Fund, World Trade Organization). > 2. American protectionism (steel tariffs, tariffs on Canadian lumber, ect.) while we go around the world preaching free trade , hypocricy. > 3. American Industrial Complex and never ending bombing. > 4. America’s low level of education and high level of retards. > Didn’t I tell you to suck my dick, you faggot Euro pansy! > Richard TAWNN > Guest > Mon Aug 26, 2002 9:25 am > > * * * > > Problem is: You don’t have a dick. > Guest > > Mon Aug 26, 2002 9:27 am > > * * * > > Oh, so you admit to being a faggot. You need to carry your monkey ass out of the United States. We need less pansies like you. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stealing-from-the-sdmb-metatus-com/126000.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stealing-from-the-sdmb-metatus-com/126000.md?page=3)