blake murphy wrote:

> On Wed, 28 May 2008 20:33:06 +0100, "Ophelia" >
> wrote:
>
>>blake murphy wrote:
>>> On Tue, 27 May 2008 19:14:54 -0700 (PDT), "Kiss-The-CooK.110mb"
>>> > wrote:
>>>>
>>>> A person comes along and finds this "newsgroup". They then open a web
>>>> site and install some forum script and a newsgroup reader and feed
>>>> YOUR comments directly into their brand new forum. They now have a
>>>> brand new web site forum fully stocked up with real life
>>>> content...Content that MILLIONS of people are looking for. They then
>>>> put some PPC ads up or even affilate ads and bingo...They use the
>>>> FREE high quality FREE content that YOU give unkowingly FREE to
>>>> them...and they "get rich quick" as they say!
>>>>
>>>> I don't think you would understand the maths behind it, so let me
>>>> just give you the final figure. The yearly readership of just this
>>>> "RFC" newsgroup from Forum feeds would be at least 100,000,000 (one
>>>> hundred million). That would be generating in the order of around 5
>>>> Billion U.S dollars per year...at an educated guess!
>>>>
>>>
>>> ...and a hundred million people have read us point out the many ways
>>> in which you're an idiot. it's truly awesome.
>>
>>psssssssssst, blake, what is 'forum script? errrr and affiliate ads and
>>bingo????
>>
>
> beats me. but if the kook is talking about it, surely it can't be
> good.

Well, he's right that people steal Usenet groups and slap them into web
gateways to make money. Similarly, people mug little old ladies. That
doesn't make either the right thing to do.


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