If you made a complaint to BlogSpot about a thief stealing your Yahoo Groups posts , you probably got in your email what I did. A nicely worded canned response telling us we have to fax our request with a long list of what to include. We can also write the request. Then they will investigate. (One look at the blogs in question would be enough!) In other words, they want us to jump through hoops to get their thieving blog members taken down. They want EACH post where information was compromised! It would take a very long time to provide that! There are thousands of Yahoo posts on those blogs!
It took over two weeks for them to bother with this response. I guess this is what happens when you get too big and don’t really care about the ‘little guys’. In case you didn’t know, BlogSpot, not everyone has access to fax machines!
To date I have identified 21 Yahoo Groups that are being copied to this skunk’s blogs (4). If this makes him enough money by driving surfers to his site he will surely make more blogs and steal from more Yahoo Groups. So if you have a Yahoo Group and you care about protecting your members email addresses and the confidential posts, you have to be on guard. Unless you can identify the thief, Yahoo can’t (or won’t) help you. Unless you have plenty of time and access to a fax machine, BlogSpot won’t help you. Even if you do have time and access to a fax, it will take awhile for BlogSpot to do anything, if in fact they do.
I have always been a fan of Google. I am very disappointed in this side of their operation. They have joined the ranks of companies with disappearing customer service.
You are on your own, Yahoo Groups!
(Don't bother asking me for the thief's blog, I am not sending traffic his way if I can help it.)
Martha
Martha's Web
Update! Hooray at last! The blog is gone! But 3 of 4 are still up. Maybe the Yahoo Groups with their messages being posted to those blogs will act and get them taken down.
2 comments:
Just a note of thanx. Joined the yahoo tech group a week or so ago and have been consuming material as fast as possible. Some of it I was privy to, but especially appreciate the Eset tip... I was in the market for some good defenseware and have the basic trial running on all our pc's now. No doubt I'll subscibe to it. Do you recommend the Smart Security package, or is the NOD32 in combo with ZoneAlarm suffice?
Also, here's a little tidbit for you: any pc with a phone connection can function as a fax machine. Works real nice with a DSL line. And there's no paper wasted by the Fax Spam! Windows XP has a decent fax function in ->Accessories->Communications that even includes a custom cover page option. There are plenty of OpenSouce versions available for *nix boxes, like HylaFax.
I entered the 'office' post the fax era, and despise them as much as myspace, but there are still a few out there that insist on using them. Just a spam machine without spamware, as far as I'm concerned.
Anyway, hope this helps, if only just a little. Keep up the great work. It's MUCH appreciated!
I'll say the same for this.. Group content is private and when posted on blogs.. it is considered unique for google..
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