Your point is interesting Bill.
..Net247 for example, has been doing this for years.My take on it is that for
forums such as these, the wider the audience for one's questions the better.
These sites have a news client that reposts answers via their web interface
back to the newsgroup so it just opens horizons for you. I also think it's
good simply because the questions and answers become searchable whereas they
would remain more or less invisible to Google et-al if we just used nntp.
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[quoted text, click to view] "Bill Woodruff" <billw@dotscience.com> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> Recently I posted a message here on issues with setting ShowInTaskBar at
> runtime; no one's responded yet, but I am not complaining :) I've always
> felt that getting a response in groups like these is a "bonus," and I'm
> always appeciative of the generous gift of time by experts that goes on
> here, from people like Bob Powell, Frank Hileman, Jon Skeet, Nicholas
> Paladino, and so many others !
>
> I was doing a web search on this issue (Google), and came across this :
>
>
http://www.eggheadcafe.com/software/aspnet/32030563/setting-showintaskbar-to.aspx >
> I was astounded to find that it was a copy of my post to this group.
>
> There was no response, or comment, just a complete copy.
>
> I doubt that there is any technical legal issue here of infringement on
> intellectual property : I didn't put a copyright notice on my post (I can
> only imagine the absurdity of that), but I do feel that just copying posts
> is a shady business practice if the web site gets its revenues from
> advertisers based on number of hits on the site as a whole. And I've
> expressed this opinion directly to the operators of the site.
>
> Is this a standard practice that is also going on on other web sites ?
> First
> time I've seen it.
>
> best, Bill
>
>
>
