George Tracy wrote:
>
> On Wed, 11 Mar 1998 09:43:41 -0600, Rose <edrose19@@idt.net> wrote:
>
> >I see the logos you are talking about when I click on the link included
> >on your post. I do not see them when searching for my name in Yahoo or
> >AltaVista,
>
> If you go here http://www.dogpile.com/ and do a search on your base
> username and view all of the results from the various search engines,
> when you get to the section returned for AltaVista you will indeed see
> posts from yourself with a link pointing to 21st Century. Dogpile is
> just a front end for feeding search criteria to numerous search
> engines.
>
> >then clicking on an item when it is found. The difference
> >seems to be that the ones I've found are archived at (Andy Norman's
> >archives):
> >http://www-uk.hpl.hp.com/people/ange/archives/archives-98/voice-users-archive/
> >The ones that you see with the ads are archived at (21 Century):
> >http://voicerecognition.com/voice-users/archive/
>
> Here is the main URL:
> http://www.voicerecognition.com/voice-users/archive/main.html
>
> >I did not know that 21 Century was also archiving the posts, I thought
> >only Andy Norman was. I also don't understand why, when I do a search
> >for my email address in Yahoo, AltaVista, etc., I get posts archived on
> >Andy Norman's page and you get them archived on 21 Century page. I can
> >understand why, as a vendor, you would object to this. On the other
> >hand, I can understand 21 Century placing ads on the pages that they are
> >archiving on their servers.
>
> Personally I find the practice a dogpile if they are going to allow
> their repository to be scanned by the various search engines. This
> totally goes against the spirit of the list's roots and history.
>
> I had previously made it a practice to search for my base username
> whenever I receive spam. I post anonymously to the newsgroups to
> prevent spam. Up until January searching on my base username always
> brought back the same results: a page from some European site which
> didn't contain the character string. When the round of spam started
> up in late January or February I went back and looked again and there
> I was in living color on both lists. Needless to say, it torqued me
> off royally to discover my new address was now being circulated,
> traded, and sold by the spammers.
>
> >I don't have an answer for this. Anyone?
>
> Search on:
>
> +edrose19 +logo2
>
> That will get you hits at AltaVista. Dogpile has you all over the
> map. Did you ever locate the Bobby Darrin Midi? ;-)
>
> >"who is still trying to understand how Netscape makes enough money to
> >pay employees, etc. now that their product is free"
>
> Corporate sales?
>
> --
> george Tracy gttracy@@perigee.net
>
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