Just found this by pure chance
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(the above should be enough to make the thing still readable but not indexed or cross-linked)
jaclaz
Jamie could of course have given permission, or does FF allow news feeds to be used at other sites?
Perhaps it is a technique that helps bring visitors to a site where search terms entered into search engines identify a site where the searcher may find the answer.
There are so many sites that take feeds from other sites, forums and blogs irrespective whether the site owner has given permission, it is hard to police that sort of thing. I asked Envisage Systems Phonebase to remove my details from their site in 2006 and they haven't done anything about it, yet I haven't trained anyone using their system in years http//
It's the RSS
Maybe we should ask about this in the FAQ's? wink
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The question was just because it is an almost empty site, exception made for this nice article
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a link to the Oklahoma Forensics group on google
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and the "feed".
and of course because I am simply too old to understand feeds and twitter. ?
jaclaz
Yeah, Greg and Jonathan have it about right. If another site wants to publish our feeds then it should be to everyone's benefit and there's (usually) no problem.
Greetings,
I'm not sure that I am comfortable with someone using my contributions to Jamie's superb site to promote their own services or agenda. I support the FF community, not some random site. Further, I'd want any Google searches that hit on my postings to come back to FF, not to some other site that is using SEO techniques.
-David
I think the important points are that
1. Overall there's a net benefit. In theory at least, Google's smart enough to work out which is the original site and give credit where it's due. Any exposure beyond that is a welcome bonus.
2. There's not a whole hell of a lot we can do about it (in any absolute sense).
I prefer to dwell on the first point -)
Don't forget too that this site does pretty much the same thing at http//www.forensicfocus.com/computer-forensics-feeds
In theory at least, Google's smart enough to work out which is the original site and give credit where it's due.
See my signature (and guess HOW exactly I managed to get to that site wink )
As I see it, and possibly I am completely old-fashioned, the feed to "news" or "articles" are one thing, a feed to the Forum is completely senseless as, if you get to it through here
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you only see the very last post of a thread, which often makes no sense when seen by itself.
jaclaz
See my signature (and guess HOW exactly I managed to get to that site wink )
Yes, I wasn't assuming that you encountered the site in any other way. I'm simply making the point that in the grand scheme of things the overall effect is beneficial to the original site.
As I see it, and possibly I am completely old-fashioned, the feed to "news" or "articles" are one thing, a feed to the Forum is completely senseless as, if you get to it through here
you only see the very last post of a thread, which often makes no sense when seen by itself.
Basically what I'm trying to get across is that someone visiting that site might be interested in one of the forum posts listed in the feed and after clicking on the relevant link is brought here (where they can then join in the discussion). That's all to the good.
Jamie
That's all to the good.
Then everything is fine and dandy. )
jaclaz