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> 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.
I couldn't work out dogpile so I went to altavista and searched
for jae2 and got a whole load of posts to the old archive. So I
searched jae2 and logo2 and got the ones you mean.
(Double-click, massive ad. for 21st Century on right, massive
picture of "voice-users" on left, both leading to www.
voicerecognition.com.)
Then I searched under Judy Evans (a friend told me he'd
found lots of messages re voice-computing under that)
and I found the voice-users ones and ones from another
-- legal -- list.
The difference was that when I double-clicked on the
law lists' archive url, I couldn't access it. But I
don't suppose, if I could have, I'd have ended up
with an ad... .
> 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 agree.
> 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.
I have to use this name. And searching under jae2 I also found
my University Department's Home Page :-(
Now I know why I get 4 of the same spams at a time. Ho hum.
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Judy Evans jae2@@york.ac.uk
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