Seems that they have done some searching for the term "FAQ" on the web, and
then add the pages to the datebase. Looking at items related to my FAQ
interest, I see that they have added George Robbins Roller Skating FAQ, (I
assume with his permission), as well as Anthony Chen's inline page.
The FAQ Pages are presented in a frame, and the normal Browser "Back"
button seems to be disabled. Persumably this is to allow the web site to
track visitors in order to sell advertising. I also noticed that a totaly
unrelated FAQ That I looked at was presented as "recomended by other
visitors" when I went back to look for George's FAQ. I have not looked at
my home mail since monday afternoon, so I have no idea if I have also
received such an Invite... If they were to send it to the webmaster at the
ISP I use, It might take several days for it to get forwarded to me.
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ERR, I would have to think about it .....
Charles MacDonald - Labour Information Management
< My own Opinion unless Otherwise Credited >
-------------
Original Text
From: "David Alex Lamb" <dalamb@cs.queensu.ca>, on 1999/05/25 05:22 PM:
To: INET[<faq-maintainers@consensus.com>]
My sysadmin passed this along. Has anyone else been contacted? It's
probably
semi-spam since the FAQ in question has my name in it but they didn't
bother
reading it - they just contacted my webmaster.
>> From Carole@AcmeSoft.com Mon May 24 22:27 EDT 1999
>> From: Carole Amos <Carole@AcmeSoft.com>
>> To: "'webmaster@www.cs.queensu.ca'" <webmaster@maroon.cs.queensu.ca>
>> Subject: You have an excellent FAQ site!
>> Date: Mon, 24 May 1999 19:23:03 -0700
>> MIME-Version: 1.0
>>
>> People are asking questions like "Where is the 'How to find people's
E-mail
>> addresses' FAQ?"
>>
>> We think you have the answers. ACME is building a world-class site for
"All
>> the Answers in the World." We found you on the web and we want to
include
>> your FAQs. (No charge or obligation whatsoever). We invite you to visit
the
>> Beta version of our FAQ directory to verify your link(s) and send us any
>> additions/corrections. To find your link, browse to
>> www.faqtory.com/faqzilla, and use the topic tree to find the right FAQ
>> topic, or use the search at the upper right of the screen. Send any
changes
>> to FAQzilla_list@acmesoft.com.
>>
>> Beyond the directory mentioned above, we are looking for people who want
to
>> make a business out of FAQs. You've got the expertise, we've got the
>> technology to make it happen. We'll manage the software and load your
>> current FAQs to get you started. All you need to do is answer new
questions.
>> You can make your answers as fancy or as simple as you want. You can
even
>> take new questions and turn the answers into FAQs by email. We'd like to
>> tell you more. Please contact us at FAQ_forum@acmesoft.com for the
details.
>>
>> Sincerely,
>>
>> Carole E. Amos
>> ACME Software, Inc.
>>
>> P.S. - We contacted you by finding your FAQ site. We did not use a
mailing
>> list. If you do not wish to receive any further email from us, please
let us
>> know at no_email@acmesoft.com. Thanks!
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