From ${news$}@goldmark.org Tue Mar 6 21:58:01 2001 Message-ID: From: Jeffrey Goldberg <${news$}@goldmark.org> Newsgroups: news.admin.net-abuse.email Subject: Re: WHAT'S THIS CRAP WITH GLOBAL-PROSPERITY.COM Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2001 13:21:45 -0800 References: <3AA4BAC8.D6324EF4@pacbell.net> Lines: 69 Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com X-Sender: In-Reply-To: <3AA4BAC8.D6324EF4@pacbell.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Complaints-To: newsabuse@supernews.com Xref: lehel.goldmark.private news.admin.net-abuse.email:37140 [mailed and posted] On Tue, 6 Mar 2001, John F. Sorenson wrote: > I've been spammed by global-prosperty twice and now I'm getting this > crap! It looks like I'm in the middle of a war zone. You are in the middle of a war zone. There is a company that is involved in various sorts of fraud (pyramid schemes, etc), IPG. A victim of theirs has put up a website http://www.global-prosperity.com/ which describes their unethical and criminal activity, as well as provides information about legal proceedings against IPG. As you can imagine, IPG is not very happy about this. They appearently hired someone, reported to be Ron Millette 855 Dahlia Way Cosby, TN 37722 US +1 423-625-8787 to distroy the anti-IPG website http://www.global-prosperity.com/ This was done by doing a so-called "joe job" against that site. That is, they sent out really obnoxious spam advertising the site that they want destroyed, so that the thousands of complaints to the ISP hosting the site would get the site removed. Millette and IPG have appearently succeeded in that several times, forceing the site to move. The effort has finally back-fired however. There are now more than 20 mirror sites of the site that they tried to kill. (I host one.) For a list if mirrors, take a look at http://homepage.ntlworld.com/sapient.fridge/ Now if you want to get back at the bad guys, you should read the site (at one of its many mirrors) and mirror it yourself. Also send a complaint off to the ISP of the source of the spam. (Which is likely to be a corrcomm connection in the Knoxville TN area.) Before you do anything realize that you are in the middle of a war zone as you put it with people on each side asking you to believe them, and calling (or framing) the other side as liars. So check out the mirrors, read their content and judge for yourself who the good guys are and who the bad guys are. But I hope that you will decide that "we" are the good guys and that you will mirror the site in question if you have the resources. Also note that for mirroring some of the sites have the .zip file for mirroring, while others don't carry that for saving space. > Who the hell is this? IGP? Who do I put the contract out on? See above. This information about Ron Millette as the source of the Joe Job is just from something posted here. I haven't verified it myself, and I don't know the nature of the evidence. -j -- Jeffrey Goldberg I have recently moved, see http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/contact.html Relativism is the triumph of authority over truth, convention over justice From line IS valid, but use reply-to.