Hijacked posts

I caught on to this at a local sewing site: All of our individual posts here at Google groups have been lifted and copied on a site called 'sew girls', out of Washington, DC. Also,our posts--our sewing conversations--seem to be the only content on this site. I assume the posts are also twittered and tweeted all over the known universe. I might not mind so much, but my personal email address was amended to several posts. This, I greatly object to. I protested last night, and asked them to remove my posts, but they are still onsite today. If you want to look at your writing, go to

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I thought Google claimed lordship over content in Google groups? C

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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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hubops

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.

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Farm1

It applies to all the gardening groups I think.

Yup - called Gardenbanter.

It's not much of a problem - just

But the copyright might.

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Farm1

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.

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Farm1

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

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Lizzy Taylor

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