Jamie Baillie/USENET Spam

[Teun Nijssen]

Hi,

on 2010-09-27 23:15 Jim wrote the following:
> 
> 
> Richard Johnson wrote:
>> At 03:35 -0400 on 2010-09-27, Andrew Lewis wrote:
>>> Anyone run across this guy before? He is submitting abuse reports to my
>>> server provider(100TB.com) as well as their ISP(Softlayer) in an attempt
>>> to get my node shutdown. Apparently from a quick search on his name, he
>>> has a history of doing this thing before, but it is getting annoying
>>> because of the precarious position that I am on for using 100TB.com.
>>>
>>>
>>> Anyone had to deal with him before? And any suggestions for dealing with
>>> him? He keeps insisting that he understands how Tor works, but then goes
>>> on to claim that I need to "lockdown" my relay so that the abuse will
>>> stop. I am somewhat at a loss as to what I should do.
>>>
>>> -Andrew
>>
>>
>> I've run across him frequently since his leaking of Homolka case
>> information in violation of a Canadian publication ban in 1993/1994.  I
>> think it fair to assume that he's known world-wide, by his own well-earned
>> reputation.
>>
>> Baillie is nearly functional enough to participate in society.  Sadly, this
>> leaves him open to being deliberately spun up by trolls.  The heat from his
>> present use of and complaints about tor nodes (including his complaints
>> about his own traffic) are a result.
>>
>> It's best to ignore him completely.  Provide no response to his messages.
>> This also goes for your providers' abuse staff, if that can be arranged.
>> It's what we do.
>>
>> Keep in mind that ignoring him does not necessarily stop his incessant
>> complaints.  But at least with no response to trigger memory and feed
>> further spite, there will be less to spin him up even further.
> 
> This is the first I have heard of either Baillie or Homolka.  So out of
> curiosity I put those terms into a search engine.  It seems there are
> quite a number of posts about Mr. Baillie.  One in particular that might
> be useful to your situation is:
> 
> http://www.canadianisp.ca/jamie_baillie.html

http://encyclopediadramatica.com/Jamie_Baillie ;-)

cheers,

teun

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