Hijacked posts

at Google groups have been lifted and copied on a site called 'sew girls', out of Washington, DC.

site. I assume the posts are also twittered and tweeted all over the known universe.

several posts. This, I greatly object to. I protested last night, and asked them to remove my posts, but they are still onsite today.

Something similar has existed - for many now - on a gardening newsgroup ... rec . gardens .. a UK gardening web site seems to have linked into it ( ? ) It's not much of a problem - just UK posters who don't seem to know that their posts go world-wide through usenet .. I suspect that Google Groups is just accessing public usenet for " their " groups .. ? .. not sure if the privacy factor matters anymore ? John T.

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Google can't cliam Lordhsip for anything because this isn't a Google group but a usenet group and usenet predates google in any of it's forms by many years.

Sewgirls has been snaffling and recopying posts for years. The same applies to posts to the usenet gardening groups.

It applies to all the gardening groups I think.

Yup - called Gardenbanter.

It's not much of a problem - just

But the copyright might.

Doesn't everyone who posts here mung their addy? Must admit that I've never bothered to take note and I see that you too mung yours Beverley, but I learned long ago that the only way to survive usenet was to mung.

I don't mung, but I do use active spam filtering on my email and accept that a few will get through - those get used to teach my spam filters to be even more discerning.

Lizzy