<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV><DIV>On May 10, 2007, at 11:01 AM, Bill Moran wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Monaco" size="2" style="font: 10.0px Monaco">I find it odd, but I can't see that there's any violation of privacy</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Monaco" size="2" style="font: 10.0px Monaco">here.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>You knew that the drupal lists were publicly archived.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>Finding</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Monaco" size="2" style="font: 10.0px Monaco">out that another site is archiving them as well with props shouldn't</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Monaco" size="2" style="font: 10.0px Monaco">be that surprising.</FONT></P> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR><DIV>I will say this: There are no "props" on a site that rewrites urls to its own domain and provides no links to the source. (The only d.o links I can find are embedded within the posts themselves.) It's scraping. See <A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_scraping">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_scraping</A></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>It may not be a problem for a community like Drupal, with open licensing etc., but it's still inappropriate internet etiquette, imho.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Also, as there has been so much pushback against balkanizing Drupal discussion in different areas, I wonder how people here feel about forked discussions on a 3d party site.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Sites like Nabble are a peeve of mine (and many other folks), but if the community here doesn't have a problem with scraped, forked discussions, so be it. Next topic.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Laura</DIV></BODY></HTML>