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  terryandtouey · Member · Jan 24, 2008 at 10:12 pm

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  Hi, hoping you can help.

  A post from my wordpress.com blog was copied in full and attributed to another author at this website:
  http://thedarkknight.portallane.com/uncategorized/tagged-by-rusty-and-his-mom/

  The site was composed using WordPress, but when I follow url http://portallane.com, I can’t determine whether it is hosted at WordPress.org (I’m assuming not “-.com”. How can I determine with certainty that it’s a wordpress hosted site.

  (My original post is http://stateofthecat.wordpress.com/2008/01/20/tagged-by-rusty-and-his-mom/)

  I’ve sent email to jason@jasoncross. And so far received a reply that he does not know what I am talking about. (Is it possible for websites which are scraping content from blogs to also scrape contact info to leave a false trail?)

  I’m still learning the ropes. Tried reviewing related forum topics but could use some additional input from the old (and very valuable) hands.

  Terry (The Aged Cat)

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  tellyworth · Staff · Jan 24, 2008 at 10:24 pm

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  Hi Terry,

  portallane.com is not hosted at WordPress.com. Contact information for the owners of that domain is here:

  http://whois.domaintools.com/portallane.com

  Jason cross is probably as much a victim as you.

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  terryandtouey · Member · Jan 24, 2008 at 10:50 pm

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  Thanks tellyworth. I’ll follow the lead you’ve given me. Probably not much I can do about it.

  I wrote back to jason cross, “if not . . . you might want to know.”