Blinky the Shark wrote:
> Brian Cryer wrote:
>> "Blinky the Shark" <no.spam@box.invalid> wrote in message
>> news:slrnfdi1dp.6d8.no.spam@thurston.blinkynet.net ...
>><snip>
>>> A few years ago I installed a little PHP script at blinkynet for
>>> contact emailing. It was a freebie, but required a visual plug for
>>> the company/author appear with the form (and on the
>>> mail-send-confirmed page).
>>>
>>> Now whois shows a new creation date in Nov 2006 for the domain, and
>>> it seems to have nothing to do with whomever I got the script from.
>>>
>>> Here's the old apparently one-page site from which I got the script,
>>> as it appears at the way-back archive from Jan 1 '04.
>>>
>>> http://tinyurl.com/yr2vzv
>>>
>>> Here's the new outfit that has the same name.
>>>
>>> http://scriptsthatwork.com/
>>>
>>> Looks like some kind of whatever you call sites that are nothing but
>>> links to other sites. And not at all focused: essays for college
>>> students, health, vacation, blah blah blah.
>>>
>>> Opinions, please. Do I owe *these* guys the mentions and links?
>>
>> Firstly, I'm not a lawyer ...
>>
>> This is a tricky one, and I think all I'm able to do is summarise the
>> issues as I see it.
>>
>> 1. The domain has clearly changed hands or been abandoned. What is
>> there now is really just a fancy holding page. Following the links I
>> think its owned now by "enom.com", who are clearly just domain name
>> resellers. So whoever owns the copyright it clearly isn't with this
>> domain any more.
>>
>> 2. The conditions of use of the script are that you keep the
>> copyright notice and do not remove any references to
>> ScriptsThatWork.com.
>>
>> So, on point 1 I would have throught you would be free to drop the
>> link but on point 2 you are clearly bound to keep it. Shame.
>>
>> If it were me I'd abandon the script (thereby side stepping the
>> issue) and replace it with either someone elses or write my own.
>> Since you're capable, I'd suggest going the route of putting your own
>> together. That way you could also get rid of those pesky <font> tags
>> (grin).
>
> Thanks for your input, Brian.
>
> Re font tags, I looked for stuff like that before publishing the code.
> I dont' see any in the two pages (form and confirmation) for the
> email.
>
> http://improve-usenet.org/feedback.html

Actually, come to think of it, since I just cribbed the code from
blinkynet, I probably removed those tags when I installed the script
there a few years ago.

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