I feel as though I am reading an amalgamation of the sundry opinions rendered by US judges and Justices against such irreputable characters as Prenda Law and its shell companies.
Bravo Ron. Bravo. But what do I know? I'm just a 20 year old 9th-grader. On Fri, 15 May 2020 12:10:49 -0700 "Ronald F. Guilmette" <r...@tristatelogic.com> wrote: > I want to thank Joe Greco <jgr...@ns.sol.net> for his kind and generous > comments. That having been said, I'm not sure that I either should, > or even want to take credit for having kicked off *with a single message* > "a 100+-message flamefest on NANOG". That was not my intent, and it is > quite clear that those NANOG subscribers who are interested only in > operational matters rather wish I hadn't. > > I also feel compelled to state that the satisfying conclusion of the > RIPE NCC Executive Board election, as already reported here by > Terrence Koeman, most probably has relatively little to do with the > recent traffic on this list, and relatively more to do with the recent > traffic on the RIPE members-discuss list, where the candidate in > question displayed all of the same qualities of tact, diplomacy, and > generosity as he has recently displayed here. > > Then again, the results of the just-completed RIPE NCC Board election > may perhaps be even more properly ascribed, primarily, to the candidate's > novel approach to campaigning which, according to numerous credible > reports, apparently included the spamming of some large fraction of > the contact email addresses contained within the RIPE WHOIS data base > with his campaign pitch, including but not limited to varuious abuse@ > and noc@ addresses, some of which received multiple copies. (No word > yet on wether or not the candidate has threatened to sue his own campaign > manager over his subesquently sagging poll numbers.) > > Moving right along... > > As some of you may have noticed, I have sat silently while being viciously > and falsely maligned here, in multiple ways, by the (now former) candidate. > In response, I'd like to just state a couple of things briefly, once, and > for the record, in order to dispel any doubts that anyone may have > entertained. > > Firstly, I am not now, nor have I ever been an owner, shareholder, manager, > employee, agent, affiliate, client, or customer of Spamhaus. I have no > business connection to that organization of any kind, nor have I ever > had any such. Nor are either they or I contemplating any such for the > forseeable future. Any suggestion to the contrary has no basis in fact > and is quite simply delusional. Indeed, as anyone who has known me or > as anyone who has read what I have written over 20+ years of fighting > spam can attest, I am, if anything, a frequent critic of Spamhaus. I > have often gone on the record to assert my belief that that organization > is too cautious and conservative when meating out what I personally feel > would be just rewards to various provably irredeamable spammers and > cybercriminals. > > That having been said, the differences between myself and Spamhaus are > only ones of emphasis, not goals, and just like I do routinely with > innumerable other anti-spam and anti-cybercrime organizations, I do > maintain informal channels of communications with Spamhaus, as I also > do with a vast number of other such commercial and non-commercial > projects with similarly aligned goals. > > If my many industry contacts render me a sinister and malevolent agent > of some dark and secretive international cabal, then so be it. In that > case it would appear that I am not alone, at least judging by the broad > attendance of several hundred individuals and organizations at the last > M3AAWG meeting this past February in San Francisco. All of us are, in > our own ways, working together to keep the wires open and usable for > normal people. That goal is more important now, in the age of Covid-19, > than it ever has been. I do not and will not apologize in any way for > doing this important work, along with so many many others. Someone > must keep the lunatics from taking over the asylum and flooding it > with spam. That was true even before Covid-19, and it is even vastly > more true now. > > Second and lastly, I am neither a racist nor an antisemite. I will not > dignify these false, baseless, and defamatory allegations any further, > and I most assuredly feel no compulsion to request any of my many jewish > friends, nor any of my POC friends to come to my defense, especially as > I need none. > > These scurrilous allegations have been presented without evidence or > factual basis, and have been supported only by tortured distortions of > my actual words, disturbing attempts to unilaterally (and conveniently) > redefine the meaning of the already well-understood and well-defined > English word "race", and by unambiguously malicious innuendo. I see > no point in getting down and rolling around in the gutter on these points, > especially not with a man whose low regard for the truth has already been > made so abundantly clear and apparent to the subscribers of this very list. > I will have nothing more to say about this, at least not in this forum. > > > Regards, > rfg -- Large Hadron Collider <large.hadron.colli...@gmx.com>