From: mistmagoo55@aol.com (Mistmagoo55)
Date: 03 Apr 2001 07:35:20 GMT
Subject: OSA 101, Part 5 TOP SECRET
Message-ID: <20010403033520.10366.00001644@ng-xa1.aol.com>
As I have posted, I was asked to cruise the net and look for any "OT" material
on the Internet. This was where I came upon Andreas' site, www.xenu.net. I
think I was first asked to do this in 1997 or so.
In 1998 a friend of mine, and someone I totally trusted (my auditor, and
longtime friend, Bill) called and asked me to do a favor for OSA. He told me it
was very important. I told him I would come over and find out what it was. He
gave me a bit of money and asked me to go to an address on Wilshire Blvd. at a
certain address. He said to just walk up to the door, and tell the man you want
to "open an ISP". He gave me a name to put it in, and said to give him the
money. At the time I knew basically nothing about computers, so I had NO idea
what this all meant.
I did what he said, and although the young man looked pretty confused, and at
first told me to just send it in --- Bill had made it clear it was very important
to get it signed up right there. So I passed on this urgency, and he said OK
and took my (OSA"s) money.
I returned to tell Bill what had occurred. Shortly after he called me to tell
me, "You have made Internet History". Not knowing anything about computers or
the Internet, I had no idea what he was referring to, and was just happy it
seemed to be a "good product". Little did I know what this really meant.
Soon after I was invited to do more of these. Again, not having any real clue
about them, I was just told by Bill that it was key to handling the critics and
religious bigots who were trying to destroy Scientology. Before I could really
begin this project, Bill told me to meet him over at OSA INT. Now remember I
was already working with the VP of the C of S with the Scietnology Parishioners
League (SPL), so I was used to OSA INT. However they always keep their projects
separate and this was no different.
OSA INT is in a building on Hollywood Blvd. Near Vine. It is called "the HGB"
which was the building's name pre Scientology. The Hollywood Guarantee
Building" I think was it's official name. I arrived there and a guard who is
always at the front gate greeted Bill and I. He called up to OSA INT, and a man
came down. He was medium height, and had brown hair. Bill introduced him to me.
"This is Gavino". Gavino is Italian, and although I had never seen him before
(ever) he seemed to know me.
We went back up the elevator to OSA INT, to the reception area. They no longer
let public in to the internal areas of OSA. So we sat in their conference room,
next to the reception area. I was told I would have to sign something, as this
project was TOP TOP SECRET.
Gavino gave it to me to read, and I will never forget my surprise. It may have
been one of the huge cracks in the Truman Show.
Here on this paper it said something to the effect of, "I promise not to tell
ANYONE about this project. This would include forever never telling any
auditor, any of the exec's of Scientology, not any ethics officers, etc. I
think it even went on to name Heber and a few other well-known execs as people
I would never tell. The price was $10,000 if I ever revealed ANYTHING to ANYONE
about this, EVER. I stood there sort of in shock.
Remember back then I was still planning on going back onto OT 7, which has
rigorous sec-checking about everything. How could I not tell my auditor? Bill
looked at me calmly and said, "Don't worry. They have very special auditors at
Flag for you. It won't be a problem."
Since I trusted Bill completely, I signed it. I shouldn't have, as there was
this queasy feeling I had in my stomach, but I wanted to help out, and I truly
knew Bill would never, ever do anything bad or harmful. I forgot to factor in
that people do get sucked in within this group, but of course at that point I
wasn't thinking of that.
So now I was part of this top-secret Internet project. The head OSA INT person
for this was (and probably still is, the very secret Gavino --- no longer secret.
And to those feeble minded who feel this is "bad" to out someone who did
something of this nature --- try looking at the whole picture!) If Gavino ever
called me on the phone, he was known as "Jack". Gavino is Clear, and I don't
know how long he has been in Scientology, but he was/is the I/C of this very
secret Internet project. I was told, although it was totally secret, it was
100% legal. I will tell you more of this as we go along.
And to Gavino --- .remember when you said "I told you about her Bill"? Well, I am
sure you are feeling just SO right at this time. You knew --- or so you thought.
The truth is, you are endangering your "church' and yes, I am telling these
people about it. You and your OSA mafia have sworn on ARS that C of S had
"nothing to do with the spamming". Well you and I know differently, and at the
very least, I say they are owed the truth.
In any battle, people do what they feel is best for their group. I want you to
really take a hard look at what exactly this OSA mafia group has been doing.
Read over what Hubbard himself said about the Guardian's Office back when they
were busted, and re-evaluate what you are doing.
Don't you honestly think it is time for a new game plan?
Think it over.
Tory/Magoo~dancing in the moonlight~
In for 30 years
Out for 8 months
SP 5
Free at last!
(more info at www.xenu.net/Tory)
From: Michael Reuss <michaelreuss@home.com>
Subject: Re: OSA 101, Part 5 TOP SECRET
Message-ID: <hlujctgb2o2m62d2nh34o62mr98kg3g4kh@4ax.com>
Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2001 17:10:54 GMT
> mistmagoo55@aol.com (Mistmagoo55) wrote:
>
>In 1998 a friend of mine, and someone I totally trusted (my auditor, and
>longtime friend, Bill) called and asked me to do a favor for OSA. He told me it
>was very important. I told him I would come over and find out what it was. He
>gave me a bit of money and asked me to go to an address on Wilshire Blvd. at a
>certain address. He said to just walk up to the door, and tell the man you want
>to "open an ISP". He gave me a name to put it in, and said to give him the
>money. At the time I knew basically nothing about computers, so I had NO idea
>what this all meant.
So you were one of the infamous anonymous women who were opening ISP
accounts with cash? That's very interesting.
Thanks for telling us about this, Tory. I'm sure that was not easy.
I'm sorry that it happened, but I'm so glad that you are now out of
that hellish system, and that you apparently regret your past
behaviors.
I'd be very interested in learning more of the details of this
operation, if you can recall more.
How many times did you open cash accounts with ISPs? Can you recall
any of the specific names of the providers, or that you used? How much
money did it typically cost? Do you know of any other "runners" in
L.A. who were also doing the sam thing, using Gavino's cash to
purchase ISP accounts?
Do you know if Gavino also had Scientologists in other cities doing
the same thing? The reason I ask is because during both spam bomb
attacks, ISP accounts were created with providers in many different
cities, as the accounts would usually be quickly closed after the
robospam program began to execute.
Do you remember two distinct phases to this operation (there was the
spam bomb attack from spring to autumn in 96, and then the sporgery
attack for almost a year, which ended in October of 99 (IIRC))?
Did you ever hear the name of Jim Rego in connection with this
operation?
Do you know of any of the details about who was doing the actual
dialing in and running the spam bot programs using the cash-purchased
accounts?
As Scientology implodes over the next few years, I hope we're going to
hear a lot more details about this from future escapees.
Calling Bernie, oh Bernie the barmy Belgian. Did you catch this
message? Is there still doubt in your mind that the OSA was
responsible for the sporgery attacks on a.r.s?
Michael Reuss
Honorary Kid
From: Warrior <warrior@entheta.net>
Subject: Sporgery - was Re: OSA 101, Part 5 TOP SECRET
Date: 3 Apr 2001 01:35:21 -0700
Message-ID: <9ac20901m9h@drn.newsguy.com>
[posted & mailed]
Thanks for telling this, Tory.
I tracked the sporgers every day for months. I was (and still am)
quite upset with the Scientologists who _forged_ my name and sent
*thousands* of bogus posts across Usenet -- posts which had the
effect of "painting over" (to use OSA's words) my posts.
The sporgers always moved to new ISPs when their accounts
would get closed as a result of my (and others') complaints.
One day I happened to be talking with Mr. Laurent Kim of Netroplex.
I had called him one morning because when I logged onto a.r.s. I
noticed the sporgery was coming from a Netroplex.com account.
He told me that two Scientology ladies had opened the account which
was being used to commit the sporgeries.
Since Netroplex has an office on Wilshire Blvd. in LA, I wonder if
this is the address of the ISP you opened an account with.
Also, would you prepare an affidavit for me to take to the FBI?
I've already been in touch with four different agents there.
Here's the info:
Netroplex Media, Inc (NETROPLEX2-DOM)
3440 Wilshire Blvd.
Suite 610
Los Angeles, CA 90010
Administrative Contact, Technical Contact, Billing Contact:
Laurent Kim lshkim@netroplex.com
(213) 252-2400
Warrior - Sunshine disinfects
See http://warrior.offlines.org/
From: mistmagoo55@aol.com (Mistmagoo55)
Date: 03 Apr 2001 22:22:49 GMT
Subject: Re: Sporgery - was Re: OSA 101, Part 5 TOP SECRET
Message-ID: <20010403182249.14912.00001695@ng-mk1.aol.com>
To anyone hurt by these posts:
As I have stated, OSA never told me what they were doiing on the other end. I
really didn't read ARS much at that time, so I didn't know what all they were
doing. Finally I did start, realized they were changing people's communciations
to other things, and at that point I quit as I am against that. I believe in
free speech, and no matter how hard they promoted this was "handling the SP's"
....that just wasn't right.
As I was never in on the other side of what they did, or how they did it, I can
only ask one of you "OSA VOLUNTEERS" to wake up, realize if what you were doing
was not illegal, it is most definitly un-ethical in the most basic form, and
even immoral.
Come forward and tell us the truth. You will only begin to heal once you do.
Trust me, OSA will thrown you out to the dogs as soon as they need to, and not
bat an eyelash while doing so. Ok don't trust me: Think I am exaggerating?
Study the entire history of the GO> Those people are STILL being majorly
hassled with sec-checks for "what they did",
WAKE UP!!!! The truth shall set you free.
Secrets will only enslave you more.
Tory/Magoo~dancing in the light~
From: DaHatter <bitbucket@lindner2k.com>
Subject: "What is Scientology?" (ARSBOMB) Spam Team FAQ for Los Angeles Area ISPs
Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2001 18:49:03 -0700
Message-ID: <3ACA7D8F.F6EFB8E8@lindner2k.com>
from
http://www.cs.ruu.nl/wais/html/na-dir/scientology/spam-team-faq.html
PREFACE:
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Because the Spam Team stopped its attack sometime in December, 1996, and
(as of the second week of April, 1997) they have shown no sign of
restarting it, this is the final appearance of this monthly FAQ on
Usenet.
I shall retire it after this posting.
Because of its value to novice ISPs as a reference for spammer-
fighting techniques, I shall maintain a copy of the 22 Dec 1996 release
posted below at <http://www.panix.com/~tbetz/WIS_Spam_Team_FAQ.html>
for the indefinite future.
Should the attack recommence, I shall, of course, resume posting the
FAQ.
-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-
The "What Is Scientology?" Spam Team FAQ for Los Angeles Area ISPs
Version 1.7 -- 22 Dec 1996
Do you run an Internet Service Provider or Internet-connected
Bulletin Board Service in the metro Los Angeles area?
Has a woman (or two women) come to your office recently to
open a temporary SLIP or PPP account "for my son" or "for my
brother who will be staying with me for a month on vacation"
-- happy, maybe even insisting, on paying for the month in
cash, or paying for the account using a credit card with a name
on it other than the name they give for the account holder?
Has a man called you and asked you to set up a temporary
account "for a friend who is coming to visit?"
The odds are extremely good that this account is about to be
abused by the "What Is Scientology?" Spam Team, as part of
an ongoing theft-of-service and denial-of-service attack on a
Usenet Newsgroup.
Do yourself a big favor; go lock the account they opened --
then come back and read the rest of this FAQ.
*-----------------------------------------------------------------*
This FAQ attempts to answer the following questions:
1) What is the "What Is Scientology?" Spam Attack?
2) Who is the "What Is Scientology?" Spam Team?
3) How does the "What Is Scientology?" Spam Team work?
4) Where does the "What Is Scientology?" Spam Team operate?
5) What ISPs have been victimized by the "What Is Scientology?"
Spam Team?
6) Does the "What Is Scientology?" Spam Team ever just leave
an ISP?
7) What will happen if I just ignore the "What Is Scientology?"
Spam Team while it's using my system?
8) Spamming isn't illegal. Why should I care about the
"What Is Scientology?" Spam Team?
9) I think the "What Is Scientology?" Spam Team may have purchased
an account on my system. What should I do?
10) I'm getting reports from people about the "What Is Scientology"
Spam Team using my system, but I don't know what to do. How can
I identify which accounts they are using? How can I stop them
from spamming?
*-----------------------------------------------------------------*
1) What is the "What Is Scientology?" Spam Attack?
Put simply, the "What Is Scientology?" (WIS) Spam Attack is an
apparent attempt by someone -- either the Church of Scientology, its
employees or its sympathizers -- to stifle the speech of people who
discuss, on the Usenet Newsgroup alt.religion.scientology, the past
and present wrongful practices and criminal acts of the Scientology
organization, its leadership, its corporate entities, and its
employees.
This attack has been in progress since May 19, 1996, and more
than 100,000 posts have been flooded into alt.religion.scientology to
date, in an apparent effort to "harass and discourage[1]" the regular
participants in the ongoing discussions there.
More information may be obtained at the following URLs:
http://wpxx02.toxi.uni-wuerzburg.de/~krasel/CoS/spam/info.html
http://www.now.com/issues/15/44/News/feature.html
http://pathfinder.com/Netly/daily/960923.html
2) Who is the "What Is Scientology?" Spam Team?
The WIS Spam Team appears to consist of at least three people; a man
of undetermined age, a young woman, and an older woman. Investigators
have yet to make a complete identification, though certain names seem
to keep coming up in the investigation. In the month of October 1996,
the Spam Team appears to have developed new cover stories, and have
been using these new stories to open accounts. They may also have
recruited new personnel. As investigation turns up new cover stories,
they will be included in future versions of this FAQ.
3) How does the "What Is Scientology?" Spam Team work?
The WIS Spam Team's _modus_operandi_ (M.O.) is fairly invariant. As
described in the opening paragraphs of this FAQ, they typically open a
temporary SLIP/PPP account on an ISP, paying for a month in advance.
The account may remain idle for weeks, while the WIS Spam Team abuses
other system's accounts in the following manner:
They find several open NNTP servers they can abuse. Once
they begin to abuse an NNTP server, they will continue to
post through it (using multiple forged From: addresses) between a
dozen and 2000 articles a night, repeating sets of about 700
different articles (usually excerpts from the book "What Is
Scientology?", or old Scientology press releases, always
advertising several official Scientology Web sites), at a rate of
up to ten per minute. They have been known to post 10,000
articles non-stop over a single weekend, sometimes using more
than one account simultaneously.
They will not stop until forced to stop, either by the
victimized NNTP server being closed to them, or by losing
their account when the ISP identifies it. Some ISPs have
reported closing more than one account at a time, either
paid for in cash or using a third-party's credit card bearing a
name other than the name given by the account holder. Addresses
and phone numbers given by the WIS Spam Team are invariably phony.
Put simply, they lie. They are reported to be very convincing liars.
When the other accounts are closed by the other ISPs, your system's turn
comes around.
4) Where does the "What Is Scientology?" Spam Team operate?
At present, the WIS Spam Team operates out of somewhere in the
metropolitan Los Angeles area. There have been small spams not
following the standard MO run out of other locations (including
one using bitwise.net in Boston, and small spams from AOL) but
they seem to be attempts at distraction from the standard pattern.
WIS Spam Team accounts have been closed all over the L.A. area,
after being used by the WIS Spam Team to post thousands of articles
to alt.religion.scientology, using NNTP servers all over the world[3].
5) What ISPs have been victimized by the "What Is Scientology?"
Spam Team?
directnet.com, westworld.com, wdc.net, barepower.net, netroplex.com,
interline.net, instanet.com, linkonline.net, loop.com, k-net.net,
dsphere.com, wavenet.com, internetconnect.net, cyberesc.net, 4link.net
and annex.com are just a FEW of the ISPs who have suffered from hosting
WIS Spam Team accounts.
6) Does the "What Is Scientology?" Spam Team ever just leave
an ISP?
No. Once begun, these attacks will continue for days (sometimes
weeks) at a time. To my knowledge, the WIS Spam Team has never just
left an ISP. They only stop when the ISP closes their account.
7) What will happen if I just ignore the "What Is Scientology?"
Spam Team while it's using my system?
Because the newsgroup under attack, alt.religion.scientology, is one
of the most-read Usenet newsgroups, the hounds of virtual hell come
down on the WIS Spam Team's unfortunate ISP for the duration of the
attack. Complaints come pouring in by email, fax, and telephone,
along with megabytes of Spam article headers -- which may be useful to
match logs against posting times when one tries to identify the
offending account, but which tend to clog system administrators'
inboxes.
Some systems have had to spend WEEKS (and hundreds of person-hours)
identifying the offending account, all the while suffering flames --
by email and posted all over Usenet -- from victimized readers of
alt.religion.scientology, and from other anti-net-abuse activists.
It's unpleasant, to say the least.
Also, ISPs that demonstrate an inability or unwillingness to stop the
WIS Spam Team's attacks often attract the attention of unsavory
commercial Usenet spammers, who flock to those ISPs in the hope of
perpetrating their own spams unhindered. Such customers, and the
complaints they inevitably generate, are more trouble than the income
from them is worth. Their activity is likely to further damage your
system's reputation, and you may lose many of your respectable
customers as a result.
8) Spamming isn't illegal. Why should I care about the
"What Is Scientology?" Spam Team?
Small-scale spamming may not be illegal; but the kind of spam-flood
the WIS Spam Team engages in -- attempting to make impossible the
regular use of alt.religion.scientology -- falls in the category of
Denial Of Service Attack, which is clearly illegal under 18 USC sec.
1030 [4]. (By the way, section 1030(g) provides for civil actions by
injured parties, so once the Spam Team is caught, there is likely to
be a long list of Federal civil suits brought against them, as well.)
Furthermore, by using NNTP servers other than those belonging to their
ISPs to post thousands of articles without authorization from the owners
of those servers (usually making use of little-known security holes in
INN to post through NNTP servers not intentionally left open[5] -- the
equivalent of picking the lock of a stranger's door to go into his
house and make prank phone calls from the stranger's phone), the WIS
Spam Team is committing Theft Of Services, also illegal under state
laws in every one of the United States.
To compound their criminality, in the course of their attacks, the WIS
Spam Team has been known to post (unauthorized, of course) through
.gov and even .mil NNTP servers -- which is Unauthorized Use of
Federal Computing Resources, illegal under 18 USC section 1030(a)(3).
The US Department of Energy is currently investigating just such
abuses of Federal computing systems at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory.
9) I think the "What Is Scientology?" Spam Team may have opened
an account on my system. What should I do?
The FBI is also investigating this ongoing attack. If you think you
may have innocently opened an account for the "What Is Scientology"
Spam Team, give a call to one of the following FBI agents, each of
whom has been briefed on this case:
Agent Hugh McLean Agent Charles Neal
Phone: 1-202-324-9164 Phone: 1-310-996-3854
Fax: 1-202-324-6363
And in the meantime, if you haven't already done what I suggested
earlier, save yourself a whole lot of wasted time and trouble.
Lock the account now.
If you suspect IN THE SLIGHTEST that you may be a victim of the "What
Is Scientology" Spam Team, or if you have opened an account in a
manner that fits the M.O. described above, lock the suspect account.
Just lock it.
Don't send a warning or an inquiry. These criminals do not respond
to warnings or inquiries. The WIS Spam Team, after they have received
past warnings or inquiries, just remained logged on to the ISP's system
24 hours a day, pumping out the spam as long as they could get away with
it, until the account was finally locked and their access was revoked.
If you lock the account and your suspicions are correct, you will
probably
not hear from the WIS Spam Team again. Once an account is locked, they
do
not complain; when the jig is up, they just move on to another
unfortunate
provider. While they have recently begun to return to providers where
they had once before held accounts, it was only after having been
elsewhere
for several months.
If someone calls to complain about the locked account, the odds are
good (unless the WIS Spam Team changes its M.O., which IS possible)
that it's a legitimate account, and you can simply fix the "technical
problem" and everything will probably be all right.
But please don't take any unnecessary chances. A few minutes of
prevention here can save you many hours of cure.
If the holder of the suspect account does call and complain
(especially if the account hasn't been used yet) it's probably a good
idea to ask for (and make a record of) a telephone number you can call
back for confirmation that the person calling is indeed the account
holder. You can say that the callback is a necessary security
measure.
Then call that number, and confirm that the person who called you is
actually at that number, before unlocking the account. The WIS Spam
Team will not give you a legitimate phone number (except, perhaps, the
number of a public pay telephone) to call back, because it might be
used later to identify them.
If you want to confirm the legitimacy of the telephone number, and you
don't have access to a reverse telephone directory or a CD-ROM
telephone directory, your telephone company will probably tell you if
a particular telephone number is indeed that of a public pay telephone.
10) I'm getting reports from people about the "What Is Scientology"
Spam Team using my system, but I don't know what to do. How can
I identify which accounts they are using? How can I stop them
from spamming?
There are a number of ways you can identify the accounts the Spam
Team is using:
A) When they set up the account (or accounts) they are using, these
people gave your staff false names and telephone numbers. The
account may have been opened by one or two women who came into
your office and paid cash for a brother/son who was going to visit
them for a month; or a man may have called and opened an account
over the phone with a promise to send in a check that has not come;
or a man may have called up and asked you to set up an account
"for a friend who was coming to visit"; or they may simply have
opened a "free trial account", if you happen to offer them.
They were using a credit card (in a name different from the names
they gave for themselves and the account holder) for a while, but
they stopped that practice around July or August of 1996 -- though
they may start doing that again at any time, especially if you
require a credit card number to open a free trial account.
To identify which accounts are likely to be the Spam Team's, go
through your recent new accounts, within the last month or so.
Find out which of them fit these patterns. Try calling the numbers
they gave you at different times of the day. If you get no answer,
or if you get a message that it is a bogus number (or an office of
the Church of Scientology), or if the phone company tells you it
is a telephone booth, lock the account.
B) A harder (but surer) way is by gathering spam headers and checking
the logs for the dialups listed in the NNTP-Posting-Host: header
lines against the posting times in those headers, to determine which
user matches all the times. This method is a lot more work, and it
takes longer, but once you make the connection, it is certain.
Then shut that account down. This is the system that several ISPs
have used.
C) The third way may inconvenience some of your legitimate users
who may legitimately use outside NNTP servers, but if all else
fails, you may have to do what some other victimized ISPs have
done -- ask your provider to filter outgoing NNTP connections
from your site.
D) This Spam Team usually likes to operate through the night,
because the small ISPs it likes to abuse tend not to have staff
monitoring systems late at night, and they are less likely to
get caught. During times when the Spam Team is likely to be
active, use network monitoring tools like "netstat" under SunOS
to check what ports are active between your dial-in server and
the NNTP ports on other machines. A perl or shell script run
from "cron" could easily log this activity with a minimum of
mess.
E) Obtain the Caller-ID information from your dial-in lines.
The Hylafax freeware for UNIX systems (you can find it at
<ftp://ftp.sgi.com/sgi/fax> provides both dial-in and fax-
in/out software that's very powerful and very friendly. It
automatically collects Caller-ID from any modems that support
the feature. It also easily supports mailfax gateways for
your users (billed to their accounts with a bit of programming
added) or only your staff, for faxing forms and bills to your
customers. It also handles configuring modems for dialup and
PPP rather well.
F) Sometimes the simplest measures can be the most effective.
If your modems are external, walk over to them and watch the
traffic on the LED's for a while when the Spam Team is likely
to be working. The perpetrator is almost entirely *transmitting*
data, for hours and hours. This is extremely unusual for dialup
lines, which will more frequently download for extended periods.
G) You can make your system less inviting for the Spam Team if,
in your contracts and connection messages on your systems, you
remind users that you reserve the right to monitor their activity
for security reasons.
Method A is generally the quickest and has proved over time to be
the most effective; but a combination of the other methods may
prove to be most useful for you, if you are unfortunate enough to
be hosting the WIS Spam Team.
Good luck.
And be careful out there.
Footnotes:
[1] In 1955, L. Ron Hubbard wrote in
_A_Manual_on_the_Dissemination_of_Material_ (one of the Sacred
Scriptures of the Church of Scientology), "The purpose of a lawsuit
is to harass and discourage rather than to win. Don't ever defend.
Always attack. Find or manufacture enough threat against them to
cause them to sue for peace. ... The law can be used very easily to
harass, and enough harassment on somebody who is on the thin edge
anyway, well knowing that he is not authorized, will generally be
sufficient to cause his professional demise. If possible, of course,
ruin him utterly." This practice continues to this day, and the
present spam-flood of alt.religion.scientology is merely the latest
means of harassment being employed by this cult. For evidence that it
IS the cult engaging in this harassment, I need only point out that
all of the articles being spammed are (c) copyright Church of
Scientology International, and no legal action is being taken against
the perpetrator, while hundreds of persons who have quoted as few as
seven lines of Scientology scripture on alt.religion.scientology
received email from hkk@netcom.com <Helena K. Kobrin>, attorney for
the Cult, threatening legal action; and several cases are now pending
in Federal courts against persons who quoted larger fair-use extracts
of Cult scripture in discussion on alt.religion.scientology[2].
[2] See <http://www.tiac.net/users/modemac/cos.html>,
<http://www.cybercom.net/~rnewman/scientology/home.html> and
<http://www.icon.fi/~marina/rnewman/index.htm> for more information.
[3] The WIS Spam Team has only used its own ISP's NNTP server once,
after having been on that system for a month, just as the account was
due to expire (and its admins had just closed a second account on the
same system). It was a sort of parting shot, one last insult added to
the injury.
[4] See <http://www.panix.com/~eck/computer-fraud-act.html> for the
text of 18 USC Section 1030.
[5] All official releases of INN through 1.4sec2 allow "blind" posting
to any group on the server by anyone with posting authorization for
any group. This is fixed in more recent versions.
The latest version is 1.5 -- See <http://www.isc.org/isc/> for details.
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You see right through distorted eyes, you know you have to learn
The execution of your mind, you really have to turn
The race is run, the book is read, the end begins to show
The truth is out, the lies are old, but you don't want to know
- Black Sabbath
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