Whoops, sorry. I didn’t see that you mentioned that. I really need to learn not to post when I’m reading in three windows and just woke up.
BTW, we could always hire a 7337 script kiddie to just DOS the site until the owners give up. (Not really.)
Saw this over there this morning, but it’s gone now. I copied it before it got deleted:
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Must be one of ours 
Oh wait, maybe I shouldn’t have copied that. Hummm.
Mods, please erase it if I messed up by quoting that entire deleted OP.
Yeah, we wouldn’t want to go around lifting copywrited material. :snerk:
Yep, they definitely realized they’re mistake. All but the National Guard thread linked to in Joey G’s post no longer exist. COVERUP!!! :foil smiley here:
Tubadiva, here is another one to send up the pipeline. This appears to be a fairly dead board, and this is the only stolen post I recognized. It’s based in Hong Kong also (same people?).
Why is the US so opposed to the International Criminal Court (Straight Dope)
Why is the US so opposed to the International Criminal Court (Law99.com)
This is starting to get weird.
Holy Crap.
Online dating: how to blow off a guy politely? (Straight Dope)
Online dating: how to blow off a guy politely? (HiCow.com )
HiCow and Metatus have a lot of posts in common. I can’t tell who is copying who.
Holy Crap.
Online dating: how to blow off a guy politely? (Straight Dope)
Online dating: how to blow off a guy politely? (HiCow.com )
HiCow and Metatus have a lot of posts in common. I can’t tell who is copying who.
So how many boards are stealing from SDMB? This is justs sad.
I just got a spam from Metatus today. Coincedence?
Zev Steinhardt
Well, aside from the obvious problems, this is kinda cool… I feel like I’m in the exposition to a Twilight Zone episode.
Hopefully we won’t be wished into the cornfield.
But yeah, these guys suck.
Then again, imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, you might as well steal from the best, yadda yadda…
Spammers are tough to fight. Foreign spammers can well be impossible to fight. Even if you can track them down (as we have here), getting the ISP to do anything ranges from Very Hard to Really Fucking Hard to Beat Your Head Into The Pilings, Son, It’ll Feel Better. Hong Kong, and Asian countries in general, are notorious for long-lived, nigh-untouchable spamhauses, where spammers of every stripe buy email access and spam unmolested because:
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[li]The ISPs obviously aren’t going to stop them, and[/li][li]The local governments either aren’t aware of the problem, aren’t convinced it is a problem (some see spamming as a Free Speech issue, which is isn’t), or have been paid to look the other way.[/li][/ul]In the world of Usenet and email, the vigilante remedy, used when the official channels are ineffective, has been RBLs, or Realtime Blackhole Lists. RBLs ensure that those who subscribe to them do not pass along anything from a blackholed domain. There are various ways to get blackholed, which vary from RBL to RBL. Spamming, obviously, but also running on open relay, a system configured to allow anyone to pass email through it. RBL makers, such as MAPS, probe for open relays and add domains to their list as appropriate.
Is the practice of RBLs legal? Yep. Is it open to abuse and capriciousness? You betcha. ORBS was, at one time, MAPS main competition. But it was run by a complete asshole who would add domains for purely personal reasons and refuse to remove them. Result? Those who subscribed to his service did not get information for really stupid reasons. Upshot? ORBS is dead, long live MAPS.
MAPS RBL Rationale — MAPS defends themselves. It reads like a manifesto of sorts, a common-netizen’s Declaration of Independence from unsolicited email of all stripes.
MAPS for DISASTER — A CAPTIALIZATION ADDICT who HATES the MAPS CONCEPT. A fun read if you keep in mind he’s a loon. Related in the MAPS-hate-a-thon is Combat HQ. A good list is provided by MAPS itself.
Contentious issue, but MAPS is on the Right Side.
This is all very wicked and weird.
I hope the proper authority on the board will keep us informed as to the developments of this very interesting debacle.
OOC, are they getting our double-posts too? Because that would be…um, kinda funny.
This is Jjtm, an ordinary user of an ordinary message board. But Jjtm will see something…something that will cause him to question the world around him, and even his own identity. Because this message board…is in the Twilight Zone
The response is still there, near the bottom.
Ah. I have a short attention
You mind your phraseology!
Mayor Fenris Shinn
They now replace “straightdope” with “law99.com” on their board.
I really don’t appreciate them posting my threads in my name, and I said as much.
…And when they cloned me they add an “s” to my username. It’s like these Hong Kong knock off jerks don’t think my username’s good enough as it is. I know I shouldn’t, but I resent that.
Can Bush declare them part of the “drivetrain of evil” or something?
At last count, I counted 15 stolen threads currently posted.
(the real)TV*
*[sub]except for Veb, of course, and that newer TVguy.[/sub]