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**cheapez** · 06-09-2007, 03:31 PM

Hi Admin,

How come I found my private messages sent to Webmaster-Talk members and all replied messages from other members are new topics posted on this site: http://forums.build-reciprocal-links.com/ ?
Looks like that forum is copying everythings from this site. Should I report spam that site to Google?

You should go there and look if you don't know about it yet.

**mgraphic** · 06-09-2007, 03:45 PM

I don't understand - what are we looking for?

**cheapez** · 06-09-2007, 05:46 PM

http://forums.build-reciprocal-links...equesting.html

click the link above, that is an example post.

That post is a private message of me sent this morning to "vraths" (a member of Webmaster-Talk.com) to request for link exchange. The second replied post also found there is the replied post from "vraths" replied to my request. How come I found them there? I didn't posted them there. What is this means anway "private message"?

See other posted posts on that forum, thinks they all copied from Webmaster-Talk too.

**cheapez** · 06-09-2007, 06:07 PM

and see the signature bellow that post. It's like that post wrote by him/her.

Quote:

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External Feeds,
Build-Reciprocal-Links.com
http://www.build-reciprocal-links.com

and sorry I was wrong, the first post found there is not a private message I sent, it is a topic I created. but the second replied post found there is a private message from vrath replied to my request.

**Republikin** · 06-09-2007, 06:42 PM

Is it possible that this person simply replied to both your PM and this topic on another forum?

**Christopher** · 06-09-2007, 06:45 PM

WMT provides RSS feeds for threads and posts (see the footer for the RSS button). The forum looks new. It is a technique of new forums to create new posts based on RSS feeds to quickly populate a forum with relevant information. I reckon he just stuck our RSS feed into vB and your thread happened to get posted.

But I am a bit confused. You say the reply is the exact same as a private message you received? Could it not just be another member replying to the other thread? There is no way for anyone to get a private message from our database unless you are the one who sent it, the one it was sent to, or have direct access to the database.

**cheapez** · 10:25 PM

Quote:

Christopher wrote:
But I am a bit confused. You say the reply is the exact same as a private message you received?

Bellow is the link to the post that I posted on Webmaster-Talk:
http://www.webmaster-talk.com/releva...equesting.html
You see, the first post is full copied from this site. but the replied post is replaced with Vraths private message sent to me, replied me. I still have that private message in my inbox, you can login and see it if you want, I have no problems.

You ask Vraths if he went to that forum and posted it there, lol

and you Ok with people extract posts from your RSS feeds and place them on their own forum?

Look in the bottom of the post:

Quote:

More...

He did link back to Webmaster-Talk in the bottom of the post, you get some backlinks.