I've been reading on other forums about the CoOp, and it seems to be a split on RIGHT or WRONG. One thing that did kind of alarm me was if Like Google decided to ping sites to see who has the CoOP files on their server. A suggestion would be a silent update through email, where we change the file names. Does this make any sense, or am I just being too paranoid? Personally, I don't know why these "SEO's" have such a problem with the CoOp, it's just another means of getting traffic to my site, as far as I'm concerned. I've notice alot of these "SEO's" have outgoing links to other sites, but I guess THAT'S different. If I wanted to boost my PR by unethical means, there's lots of other ways of doing it, some actually better than what these people think the CoOP is all about. IMO, most of these "SEO's" are just blowing smoke up their own ass, "Look at me, I Know what I'm Talking about, I'm an expert!" But back to changing the file names, is this something to look into? Please, set me straight if I'm off here....
If google was to go after this program, they would have to go after alot of programs out there. Are they going to blacklist every site that buys advertising on other peoples sites? I just dont see this as beein anything close to a problem. Right now, there are two very large search engines who are climbing the ranks of popularity again. I would guess google is more concerned with that than they would be a program like this which is doing nothing at all wrong.
I believe you can change the file name to whatever you want as long as you update the corresponding references.
The script when modified should work but what does Shawn think about that? EDIT: I just asked this question in this thread .