this is weird...

“I was just doing a search on google, looking at different trails I've been on to see what else is out there and, lo and behold, I started reading something that sounded familiar....in fact it was something I had written on this board. I;m probably the only one here who didn't know about the tie-in.....bottom line, watch what you say one some things cause it might be hanging out there for others (besides this board) to read!”

“I copy and paste all the threads on TT and use them as my own on other sites.

I copy and paste all the treads from the Portuguese thumb wrestling bulletin board to TT.”

“This wasn't weird, but I got an E-mail from anouther guy here in Fresno that had found my posts on the TT and wanted to meet up for some Backpacking this summer. It just reminded me that there are a lot of people lurking and not posting on this site.

ThinAir”

“Hey, lurkers, come in out of the shadows. Unless you are lurking bad trolls.”

“I entered "sarabelle" at Dogpile (search engine). I got several posts she had done at TT. I also found out that there is a cat named Sarabelle in CA that has her own web page. I thought that I had invented the word...

Geez - people from all around the world lurk here. I think Matt has reminded us of that a few times.”

“thebackpacker.com is the 72,797th most popular site on the web.”

“What's #72,796?”

“"trailer_park_porn.com"”

“Just looked "hyperpacker" up at dogpile,there were links to my posts and phils photo page.”

“Wow, I put in Sarabelle at yahoo.com and her photo page pic was #2 on the search results. Then I plugged in my own name (steve hiker) and I was No. 1 and 2 on the results. My pic was first and a Smokies report was second. Damn, these search engines cast one powerful net!”

“COOL! I'm on the Yahoo search engine!”

“Dude you are all over the place!”

“I picked up a copy of this book, I think it was called the Lord Of The Rings...anyway, Rad and I were both in it!!!
How could the author have known about us? Too strange.”

“Yikes!!! Talk about big brother.... all the search sites you guys mentioned had my info on them too... along with some other 'wanna be' who's got my name!!! How come they have my info from TT & not any of the other sites I belong to?? 8-O”

“yeah, dunadan!

this tolkien punk violated our copyrights! LOL!!!!”

“It sure is, I found trail reports I've been doing for the FS for the last 5 years which I didn't post. Also pics of trail damage in '97 which are copyrighted. Seems I need to have a talk with some people.”

“Aren't you all glad that I came to this site and found out this information for you??????? Have a good day, all, going to lunch.”

“Nothing for me. Loads of links to other "Pamsters".”

“I get "Trailtalk Contributor: Twigeater" and it links to my picture on Phil's photo page. Another one has my bio stuff that you get if you click on my name.”

“Wow! They have me pegged. I typed in "kleetn" and a picture of Mel Gibson popped up.”

“Did you hit your head during the earthquake kleet? Might explain why your seeing things, lol.”