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>Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 12:46:00 -0500 (EST)
>From: murr rhame <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Re: eGroups
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>There is an eGroups list with the same topic and a similar name
>as my most popular list. I has never considered their copy a
>highjacking. Someone just wanted a similar list with a slightly
>different spin. The alternative list hasn't bothered me in the
>least.
>
>I have made no effort to trademark my list name. I haven't seen
>a lot of cross-posting. Subscribers are at liberty to post the
>same material to both lists. If they started to grab material
>they didn't write themselves and posted it to another forum
>without the author's permission, I would be upset.
The list at eGroups has 2 subscribers. The archived postings
are from my list. The list information on eGroups references
my website.
>How do you know eGroups (the company) is responsible for creating
>a list with the same topic as yours? It's a huge site, the
>chances of them having a similar or duplicate list for nearly any
>topic are pretty high. Have you contacted the list owner of the
>eGroups list? Try [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hard to say whether the company or a subscriber did it,
I did a scan for eGroups subscribed addresses on my list but
have none. I sent a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
and got no answer. I sent messages to eGroups addresses
and got only autoresponders referring me to their faq if I
needed help using eGroups.
I'm on the digest so I didn't get all the responses until this
morning, but thanks for the advice. I do need to adjust my
welcome message and notice on my website.
I still don't quite understand why, when I attempted to post to
my own list, I received a message that I was not allowed to
post to eGroups because I was not a subscriber. Considering
that I did not send the message or the approved: message to
eGroups. That is what tipped me off to look at eGroups, which
is archiving a portion of the messages to the list. Still
a puzzlement to me what's going on. And as I said, I have
no eGroups subscriptions -- either for the list, or for
individuals. And yet it gets the messages.
I posted a message re:eGroups on my list and am waiting
to see what messages continue to be posted there...
/Dorothy
