{"id":4307,"date":"2006-01-05T14:05:10","date_gmt":"2006-01-05T18:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/formerlyknownas\/2006\/01\/05\/winter-fog-and-luserland-2\/"},"modified":"2011-08-05T14:54:16","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T18:54:16","slug":"winter-fog-and-luserland-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2006\/01\/05\/winter-fog-and-luserland-2\/","title":{"rendered":"winter fog — and (L)Userland"},"content":{"rendered":"

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our webserver over the past fortnight, making it very difficult <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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for us to post, respond, or even see<\/EM> this weblog.   Software <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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from the folks at <\/FONT>Userland<\/FONT><\/A>\/Manilla keeps identifying us as <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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potential Spammers — and Userland won’t help the Harvard <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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webserver fix the problem!   If you know the f\/k\/a<\/EM> Gang, you <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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know this is causing major agita.<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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we suggest our <\/FONT>Recent posting<\/FONT><\/A>, <\/FONT>our <\/FONT>Guest Poet<\/FONT><\/A> and <\/FONT>dagosan<\/FONT><\/A> <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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archives, and our reaction <\/FONT>to being chosen “<\/FONT>Creative Law Blog<\/A><\/FONT>” <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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by <\/FONT>Blawg Review<\/FONT><\/A><\/EM>.<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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wind chill zero <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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\"erasingS\"  Metadata Meshugass<\/STRONG><\/EM>:  The Florida Bar Board of Governors <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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materials; via <\/FONT>Legal Underground<\/FONT><\/EM><\/A>)  At their meeting in December, the <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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legal services by mining metadata.  It seems to me they are cutting ethical corners <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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and that definitive statements from Professional Reseponsibility Committees on <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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Wall Street Journal<\/EM> get off giving its new law-oriented <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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weblog the generic name <\/FONT>Law Blog<\/FONT><\/EM><\/A>?  Next thing you <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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towered academics, <\/FONT>check out this post by Prof. Bainbridge<\/A>.  (“Media Bias? <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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NYT Headline Refuted by <\/FONT>Own Story,”  Jan. 5, 2006).  I’ve said it before:  when <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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Apologies: We’ve been having a lot of problems accessing our webserver over the past fortnight, making it very difficult for us to post, respond, or even see this weblog.   Software  from the folks at Userland\/Manilla keeps identifying us as potential Spammers — and Userland won’t help the Harvard webserver fix the problem!   If you know the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":94,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2926],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pre-06-2006"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6kP1R-17t","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/94"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4307"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12842,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4307\/revisions\/12842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}