# Who is that Straight Dope in the mirror? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [May 6, 2006, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-that-straight-dope-in-the-mirror/355697 "2006-05-06T20:46:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2006, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-that-straight-dope-in-the-mirror/355697/1 "2006-05-06T20:46:12Z")
It appears there are some web sites that are mirroring parts of the Straight Dope. Just a heads up to TPTB. [http://www.kor.dk/borge/inflate.php?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.straightdope.com&style=top](http://www.kor.dk/borge/inflate.php?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.straightdope.com&style=top) [http://adgjm.net/ura/ua.cgi?ul=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.straightdope.com&ua=](http://adgjm.net/ura/ua.cgi?ul=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.straightdope.com&ua=) [http://www.hereuare.com/getArchived.php?q=&rtq=0&d=160712943722](http://www.hereuare.com/getArchived.php?q=&rtq=0&d=160712943722) [http://69.20.125.245/index.html](http://69.20.125.245/index.html) [https://admin.hero.ac.uk/rae/rae\_dynamic.cfm?myURL=http://www.straightdope.com/](https://admin.hero.ac.uk/rae/rae_dynamic.cfm?myURL=http://www.straightdope.com/) I discovered these by using [Copyscape](http://www.copyscape.com/), a website I discovered that searches the internet for duplicate websites. The free trial only returns the first ten hits, it might be worthwhile to subscribe and see how many other doppelgangers are out there. ---
**Author:** ![Contrapuntal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e274bd/32.png) [@Contrapuntal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrapuntal)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2006, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-that-straight-dope-in-the-mirror/355697/2 "2006-05-06T21:02:37Z")
Did you e-mail an admin? Hell, I’ll do it for you. ---
**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2006, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-that-straight-dope-in-the-mirror/355697/3 "2006-05-06T21:25:24Z")
It’s nice to be popular, I guess. I’ll refer this up the ladder. Thanks for spotting these for us. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2006, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-that-straight-dope-in-the-mirror/355697/4 "2006-05-07T03:25:31Z")
Are there any chickens involved _this time_? ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2006, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-that-straight-dope-in-the-mirror/355697/5 "2006-05-07T03:30:17Z")
> [@Qadgop the Mercotan](#): > > Are there any chickens involved _this time_? I’m sorry, can you explain that? I have learned about Goats, Goats and Rockets, Sheep and Giant Squids, but what is this about Chickens? Jim ---
**Author:** ![Zabali\_Clawbane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/ecd19e/32.png) [@Zabali\_Clawbane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zabali_Clawbane)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2006, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-that-straight-dope-in-the-mirror/355697/6 "2006-05-07T03:36:27Z")
Someone a while back had a message board the contents of which were lifted in full from the SDMB and posted with minor cosmetic changes to try to “claim” them as originating not from the SDMB, but from their board. They even copied member names, but a post by “Shodan” there might actually have been made by Johnny L.A. here. It had a chicken theme. It was pretty trippy to see all the dopplegangers. ---
**Author:** ![Una\_Persson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/una_persson/32/346_2.png) [@Una\_Persson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Una_Persson)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2006, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-that-straight-dope-in-the-mirror/355697/7 "2006-05-07T04:31:23Z")
For more information on the chicken board, see this: > **[Stolen content. Again.](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=295910)** > > I seem to recall this having happened earlier with the same exact site (or one run by the same people/person). The forum’s called Cockadoodledoo. A lot of usernames are repeated from SDMB users. A lot of posts are repeated from SDMB posts. The... ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2006, 6:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-that-straight-dope-in-the-mirror/355697/8 "2006-05-07T06:26:52Z")
If you’re wondering why this happens, it’s apparently a simple (though unethical and I assume illegal) way to make your site appear to be popular so as to attract more people. ---
**Author:** ![Garfield226](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Garfield226](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Garfield226)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2006, 6:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-that-straight-dope-in-the-mirror/355697/9 "2006-05-07T06:49:33Z")
If you do a search on “[boards.straightdope.com](http://boards.straightdope.com)” you get a bunch of hits too, including [this](http://www.stearns.org/fun/lotr-written-by-someone-else.html) clone of the “If LOTR was written by someone else” thread. ---
**Author:** ![Bob\_Scene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e19adc/32.png) [@Bob\_Scene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bob_Scene)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2006, 7:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-that-straight-dope-in-the-mirror/355697/10 "2006-05-07T07:28:05Z")
> [@Fear Itself](#): > > It appears there are some web sites that are mirroring parts of the Straight Dope. Just a heads up to TPTB. > > [http://69.20.125.245/index.html](http://69.20.125.245/index.html) This is a joke, right? The IP address 69.20.125.245 resolves to [rs1.straightdope.com](http://rs1.straightdope.com). Normally I would ask you if this was your first time on the internet, but you’ve been here since 2000. ---
**Author:** ![GorillaMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/50afbb/32.png) [@GorillaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaMan)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2006, 7:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-that-straight-dope-in-the-mirror/355697/11 "2006-05-07T07:42:19Z")
> [@Fear Itself](#): > > [https://admin.hero.ac.uk/rae/rae\_dynamic.cfm?myURL=http://www.straightdope.com/](https://admin.hero.ac.uk/rae/rae_dynamic.cfm?myURL=http://www.straightdope.com/) Chop off the Straightdope URL and you get [this](https://admin.hero.ac.uk/rae/rae_dynamic.cfm). You can stick any URL in there: [https://admin.hero.ac.uk/rae/rae\_dynamic.cfm?myURL=http://www.amazon.com/](https://admin.hero.ac.uk/rae/rae_dynamic.cfm?myURL=http://www.amazon.com/) [https://admin.hero.ac.uk/rae/rae\_dynamic.cfm?myURL=http://www.google.com/](https://admin.hero.ac.uk/rae/rae_dynamic.cfm?myURL=http://www.google.com/) ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2006, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-that-straight-dope-in-the-mirror/355697/12 "2006-05-07T15:56:28Z")
> [@Bob Scene](#): > > This is a joke, right? Congratulations on memorizing all the IP addresses on the internet. No we know who to go to. ---
**Author:** ![Una\_Persson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/una_persson/32/346_2.png) [@Una\_Persson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Una_Persson)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2006, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-that-straight-dope-in-the-mirror/355697/13 "2006-05-07T17:04:32Z")
> [@Fear Itself](#): > > Congratulations on memorizing all the IP addresses on the internet. No we know who to go to. While Bob could have said it kinder, it’s simple to resolve an IP address to who owns it. From a command prompt, do “nslookup 69.20.125.245”, and it will tell you [rs1.straightdope.com](http://rs1.straightdope.com) is the owner. You can also go to [www.arin.net](http://www.arin.net) and work it out from there. There’s lots of other tools one can use, and none of this is confidential information. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2006, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-that-straight-dope-in-the-mirror/355697/14 "2006-05-07T19:10:44Z")
> [@Una Persson](#): > > While Bob could have said it kinder, it’s simple to resolve an IP address to who owns it. I know. I just relayed what I had found. I left the detective work up to the copyright holder. \*\*Tuba \*\* appreciated it, but for some reason, \*\*Bob \*\* thought I deserved some snark, so I was being sarcastic. _C’est la vie_. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2006, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-that-straight-dope-in-the-mirror/355697/15 "2006-05-07T21:50:09Z")
I don’t know if it still up and running but I once mistakenly typed in [Starightdope.com](http://Starightdope.com) (no link of course). It was/is a spam site full of popups. Beware. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2006, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-that-straight-dope-in-the-mirror/355697/16 "2006-05-08T15:20:52Z")
> [@Fear Itself](#): > > [http://www.kor.dk/borge/inflate.php?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.straightdope.com&style=top](http://www.kor.dk/borge/inflate.php?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.straightdope.com&style=top) This is one of those [dialectizing](http://rinkworks.com/dialect/) things.