On Tue, 06 Feb 2007 22:48:33 +0000, "Pete @ www.GymRatZ.co.uk"
<pete33@gymratz.co.uk> wrote:

>Call me out of date, but I have just been discovering the "webmaster
>tools" on googlebase or WETF it's called.

Jeez, Pet, you're, ah, what's the term? Oh yeah - out of date!
Bigtime!

>I recently didn't bother sticking a sig. block on various posts because
>didn't thing it had much purpose anymore. Well, I was more than
>surprised to see just how many non-usenet sites scrape usenet posts for
>data. These sites all seem to give valid non-usenet links back.
>
>and... dare I say for fear of starting something, my "it's worth a shot"
> usenet posting name/alias/SPAM "Pete @ www.gymratz.co.uk" actually
>gave a valid link back from a "cycling forum" that had for some reason
>scraped content from a D-I-Y forum. so even though my vulgar sig. block
>had been removed, the link was still there! No tricking intuition!
>
>So, sadly, I have re-instated my vulgar and hideous sig. block, which I
>believe @ 4 lines with 4 links is on the polite side of sig. block abuse.
>
>:¬)
>
>Oh, and the new server switch-over on the weekend went without a hitch.
>Google last indexed the site on the old server on the 1st so all being
>well it won't notice the switch and the 100GB / month bandwidth will
>prevent things grinding to a halt now things are bouncing away in the
>top spot for some very competitive words.
>(More thanks to CoffeCup "Google site map creator" than anything else
>I'd say)

Thanks to me for making you think a bit! Sniff!

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