Subj : Echo Hijacking
To   : George Pope
From : Thom LaCosta
Date : Tue Nov 25 2003 10:03 pm

George Pope wrote in a message to all:

 GP> That's all I can think to call it -- one of my echoes (MENS_ISSUES)
 GP> seems to have been linked up to an internet newsgroup, in such a
 GP> way that even my regular postings are converted to Usenet format
 GP> (ie. "To:ALL") :|

The most common definition for echo hijacking is when someone "steals" the 
listing from the listed moderator.  The next most popular useage is when
someone relists and echo that's expired(but that is NOT a correct use of the 
word). 

 GP> How? What? But? Why? :(

Look at the path and see who is gating the echo....or try a google search for 
your echo name.

 GP> This seems a clear abuse of Fidonet, am I right?

No...most echoes do not belong to fidonet...so porting them to the internet is
not an abuse of fidonet.

Your echolist doesn't say anything about not ating the echo to the 
Internet...so, not one knows that you don't want it done.

Thus, if you compalined to the node gating it, that node could simply say that 
since you didn't say they couldn't, they can.

I'd suggest you change the echolist to prohibit gating to the Internet before 
you start complaining to whoever is doing it.

cya,
thom
baltimoremd@baltimoremd.com
http://www.tlchost.net/echolist/ 
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