'Mike' wrote:
"Ian B" wrote in message
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Janet wrote:

Gardenalley is a commercial enterprise using urg posts ( under a
different name of origin) to populate their website so they can sell
webspace to advertisers.


This taps into the whole question of the "free" ethos on the
internet; somebody, somewhere has to pay for everything. You get
these situations where people are providing value and others are
earning from it; the question of ethics becomes problematic. The
people who foolishly provided free content for Arianna Huffington's
website didn't get upset until she sold it for 300 million
smackeroonies. I sometimes post free art onto websites, but I get
publicity out of that (and they get to sell ad space). I think it's a
question here of misrepresentation. GA are in my view
pretending, or implying anyway, to be something they aren't. I can't
really prove that what they're doing is wrong, but it just doesn't
feel right to me. That's more on behalf of others than myself,
because as everyone knows I know sod all about gardening and mostly
only post to ask questions, while gaining from reading the posts of
others. They could at least just acknowledge where the heck their content
is
coming from. It's not too much to ask, is it?


Ian


So, as I have said before, if you are paranoid, as many are, about
your posts on urg being copied onto gardenbanter or any other
gardening, or even non gardening forums, don't post on urg.

Where is the difficulty there?



That's a bit silly, isn't it Mike?


Ian