{"id":3663,"date":"2013-07-30T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-30T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2013\/07\/30\/sometimes-people-can-be-so-helpless-finding-the-owner-of-a-web-page\/"},"modified":"2013-07-30T07:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-07-30T07:00:00","slug":"sometimes-people-can-be-so-helpless-finding-the-owner-of-a-web-page","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20130730-00\/?p=3663","title":{"rendered":"Sometimes people can be so helpless: Finding the owner of a Web page"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Internal to Microsoft are thousands of Web sites. This is a story about one of them. <\/p>\n<p> On an internal discussion list, somebody asked <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"q\"><p> We just created a new <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nonsense_word\"> Flurb<\/a>. Does anyone know how to get listed on http:\/\/internalsite\/newflurbs? <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> I hadn&#8217;t heard of that site before, but I checked it out. Neat, it&#8217;s basically a blog which announces new Flurbs. I can see how somebody would want their Flurb to be listed there. I also saw lots of pieces of information on the page which the person appears not to have noticed. I replied, <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"q\">\n<p> Um, how about the <i>Email<\/i> link in the navigation bar? Or did you try that and it didn&#8217;t work? <\/p>\n<p> Also, each entry has the same name at the bottom. You could try contacting that person. <\/p>\n<p> Just giving you some ideas on problem-solving techniques. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> <b>Pre-emptive snarky comment<\/b>: &#8220;Hey, Raymond, where&#8217;s your contact link?&#8221; I was forced to <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/b\/oldnewthing\/archive\/2004\/09\/22\/232903.aspx\"> disable the contact link<\/a> some time ago because it was being used primarily to send spam. Finding my email address is left as an exercise. (It&#8217;s not hard.) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Internal to Microsoft are thousands of Web sites. This is a story about one of them. On an internal discussion list, somebody asked We just created a new Flurb. Does anyone know how to get listed on http:\/\/internalsite\/newflurbs? I hadn&#8217;t heard of that site before, but I checked it out. Neat, it&#8217;s basically a blog [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-3663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-other"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Internal to Microsoft are thousands of Web sites. This is a story about one of them. On an internal discussion list, somebody asked We just created a new Flurb. Does anyone know how to get listed on http:\/\/internalsite\/newflurbs? I hadn&#8217;t heard of that site before, but I checked it out. Neat, it&#8217;s basically a blog [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3663\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}