On Fri, May 21, 2004 at 05:56:31AM -0700, Jimmy Wales wrote:
As is well known, I advocate taking a fairly relaxed approach to "bandwidth thieves" who are framing our content, etc. I don't think it's good, but I think the better approach is usually going to be to contact them first and ask them to stop it, and try to get them on board with a technologically better (and more friendly to our pocketbook) method of reuse!
But as Brion says, this particular case is not even *vaguely* legitimate.
We haven't done much investigations yet, but as it seems the website is in some connection to de:Benuzter:Herbye who sometimes adds hidden (using divs) links to pages like steine.de which all belong to Merkel Internet Service. themensuche.de has a different Admin-C but uses steine.de as an intermediary.
the admin of themensuche.de seems to have reacted and deactived his evil script, but I didn't get an answer to my mail from them yet.
ciao, tom