FYI

[Jodi Cotten]

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I want to make you all aware of something that has happened to me from posting on this forum. 

 

I recently had someone take a post from this forum and quote it on two other websites (myspace and ratemyprofessor).  It was take completely out of context and written in such a way that it made me look very bad.  Fortunately, both websites removed the quote.  I am sure it came from the archives, those are public and any one can access what we have posted.

 

Jodi

[Joan Kessler]

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How did you find out?

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From: owner-mathedcc@... [mailto:owner-mathedcc@...] On Behalf Of Jodi Cotten
Sent: Sunday, April 13, 2008 12:01 PM
To: mathedcc
Subject: FYI

I want to make you all aware of something that has happened to me from posting on this forum. 

 

I recently had someone take a post from this forum and quote it on two other websites (myspace and ratemyprofessor).  It was take completely out of context and written in such a way that it made me look very bad.  Fortunately, both websites removed the quote.  I am sure it came from the archives, those are public and any one can access what we have posted.

 

Jodi

[Jodi Cotten]

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Someone who saw it on myspace emailed me.  A few days later it showed up on ratemyprofessor.

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Sent: Sunday, April 13, 2008 2:19 PM

Subject: RE: FYI

How did you find out?

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-mathedcc@... [mailto:owner-mathedcc@...] On Behalf Of Jodi Cotten
Sent: Sunday, April 13, 2008 12:01 PM
To: mathedcc
Subject: FYI

I want to make you all aware of something that has happened to me from posting on this forum. 

 

I recently had someone take a post from this forum and quote it on two other websites (myspace and ratemyprofessor).  It was take completely out of context and written in such a way that it made me look very bad.  Fortunately, both websites removed the quote.  I am sure it came from the archives, those are public and any one can access what we have posted.

 

Jodi

[coolmath2]

In a message dated 4/13/2008 9:01:46 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, mathprofjc@... writes:

I want to make you all aware of something that has happened to me from posting on this forum. 

 

I recently had someone take a post from this forum and quote it on two other websites (myspace and ratemyprofessor).  It was take completely out of context and written in such a way that it made me look very bad.  Fortunately, both websites removed the quote.  I am sure it came from the archives, those are public and any one can access what we have posted.

That's too bad.  I'm sure that can happen to any of us.

 

What I get is a TON of spam to the email address I use here.  Reason being that they post our full email addresses on the website archive for all the spam bots to easily gather.  Rule #1 for smart webmasters is to never put your email address on your site (or even in your code).

 

Really, I don't think this stuff should be archived at all for the above two reasons.

 

Karen

Coolmath.com

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[coolmath2]

In a message dated 4/15/2008 5:30:49 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, koffenholley@... writes:

I agree with Karen. When I Google myself, my comments on the listserv come
up, and they are not bad, but they do not seem worth archiving. ;-) I
really enjoy the conversations I read here, and find many of them thought
provoking and interesting. However, I think of these posts as ongoing
conversations, not as something I'd want to refer to in a historical
record. I find it somewhat disturbing that they are archived.

Kathleen Offenholley
Brookdale Community College

One of the reasons that they are archived, Kathleen, is because they are very "keyword rich" -- lots of math words in there.  This helps The Math Forum come up high in the search engine results.

 

Karen

Coolmath.com

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