Re: Today's Content Quality Rating For alt.fan.landrover

"Web's Best Friend" spammed us in a rather novel way, so 3/10 for effort. :-)

It's like those s***ty websites that take newsgroups and copy all the posts into their own web-based forums, if you feed a phrase you've written about a month ago into google, you're likely to find it on some 4x4 forum somewhere along with the rest of the posts in this group. Most irritating. I've had emails from such websites in the past telling me that someone has replied to my post in their forums.

Yes, we get a lot of that on uk.rec.gardening where people use Gardenbanters web site amongst others to post to the Ng. Obviously these people don't know about Usenet or even Newsgroups, are too frightened to post direct, or find it too complicated to set it all up. With many ISP's now dropping newsgroups (eg, Wanadoo recently) it will get worse, either that or newsgroups will fade away. We will all end up using