Subject: Who Owns Hate on the Net?
by Steve Silberman 5:05 a.m. June 5, 1998 PDT

"Patrick Blakely -- infamous on Usenet and Internet Relay Chat as RevWhite.."

Blakely is identified as Rev White now let's see what this watchdog group has on his activities:

http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,1469,00.html

Undernet Shaken by Anti-Porn Crusade
by Steve Silberman

2:38 p.m. Jan. 15, 1997 PST

An evangelist who claims that his God-given calling is to "make America straighter and whiter" is causing anguish on the Undernet, a global affiliation of Internet Relay Chat channels that bills itself as "the friendly network."

Calling himself "Reverend White ... the most feared man on IRC," ...

"This guy is the worst I've ever seen," says Web designer John Leth-Nissen, whose nickname on the Undernet (or "nick" in IRC parlance) is "Deadelvis."

Undernet administrators claim that RevWhite and his supporters have forged email and Usenet posts, unleashed denial-of-service attacks, posted unlisted telephone numbers, and made direct threats ...

At least one Undernet operator, whose nick was "Judi," resigned her volunteer post following threats made to her life and that of her 9-year-old daughter after she "reopped" a [homosexual] channel disrupted by RevWhite. "After that, he'd come on IRC with nicks like 'KillJudi,'" Judi says. "He'd say anything ... to somehow prove that I am, as he claims ... a 'child molester.'"

"He called and told me that he intends to kill my child," she continues. "I grew up terribly abused by my own parents, and I was proud of myself for having the courage to work through that and break that cycle. ... I started getting phone calls from all kind of freaks that he'd given my number to. ...

IRC operators say an inflammatory post RevWhite made to a white-supremacy newsgroup bore Mirashi's address - a tactic that, Leth-Nissen points out, can be especially damaging as more and more employers use Dejanews to compile background information on potential employees.

The issue is further complicated by the fact that there is confusion as to RevWhite's true identity, with some Net denizens believing that RevWhite, Ellis, and other defenders of IRC Watch are, in fact, the same person. RevWhite has posted to the newsgroups under various aliases, including names with the initials "PSB."

Neither RevWhite nor Ellis responded to Wired News inquiries, and many of those contacted for this report asked that only their "nicks" be used, fearing reprisals. ...

Jeff Field, aka "Terabyte," a 14-year-old Web designer who hosts Windows-related help channels on the Undernet, says that he helped Don Ellis' brother Richard run an Undernet server in Arkansas after receiving a request for assistance on a mailing list. (The availability and willingness of Undernet operators to assist users is one of the things that distinguishes the Undernet from the other major IRC networks, such as EFNet). The server had been online for a month or so, and "Don was going to become an operator," Field recalls, "but I had to de-link the server from the network after somebody started changing the settings."

One day after the server was removed from the Undernet, Field says, he was subjected to a massive, disabling ICMP data-flood, originating in Arkansas.

Field's name also started appearing on Usenet posts that he hadn't written, implying that Field himself - an honors student in 9th grade - was a supporter of child pornography....

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