From: nick@zeta.org.au (Nick Andrew) Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology Subject: Tech support call received from "Church" Date: 18 May 1999 14:50:55 +1000 Message-ID: <7hqrjf$u10$1@gidora.zeta.org.au> At around 14:00 today somebody called my tech support staff and reported "a problem accessing 'nick.zeta.org.au', error 'No route to host'". This is not a host which is accessible to the public and so my staff told the caller so, and asked why they needed to use it. The answer was that the call was from the "Church [sic] of Scientology" and they had received a report (no details given) of an unfavourable web site on 'nick.zeta.org.au'. When the details of that call reached me I told a joke about Xenu and the whole office cracked up with laughter. I wonder if I should tell the clams the correct URL :-) Nick. -- Zeta Internet SP4 Fax: +61-2-9233-6545 Voice: 9231-9400 G.P.O. Box 3400, Sydney NSW 1043 http://www.zeta.org.au/
From: cptnerd@nerdwatch.com (Captain Nerd) Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology Subject: Re: Tech support call received from "Church" Date: Tue, 18 May 1999 02:12:27 -0400 Message-ID: <cptnerd-1805990212270001@alex-va-n020c126.moon.jic.com> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 In article <7hqrjf$u10$1@gidora.zeta.org.au>, nick@zeta.org.au (Nick Andrew) wrote: > At around 14:00 today somebody called my tech support staff and reported > "a problem accessing 'nick.zeta.org.au', error 'No route to host'". This > is not a host which is accessible to the public and so my staff told the > caller so, and asked why they needed to use it. > > The answer was that the call was from the "Church [sic] of Scientology" > and they had received a report (no details given) of an unfavourable > web site on 'nick.zeta.org.au'. > > When the details of that call reached me I told a joke about Xenu and > the whole office cracked up with laughter. I wonder if I should tell > the clams the correct URL :-) > > Nick. Well, they might have gotten "nick.zeta.org.au" from doing an nslookup on your record. > zeta.org.au. Server: gidora.kralizec.net.au Address: 203.15.68.18 zeta.org.au nameserver = gidora.kralizec.net.au zeta.org.au nameserver = godzilla.zeta.org.au zeta.org.au nameserver = warrane.connect.com.au zeta.org.au nameserver = munnari.oz.au zeta.org.au origin = gidora.zeta.org.au mail addr = nick.zeta.org.au ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ serial = 1999051801 refresh = 21600 (6H) retry = 600 (10M) expire = 3600000 (5w6d16h) minimum ttl = 3600 (1H) zeta.org.au preference = 20, mail exchanger = gidora.zeta.org.au zeta.org.au internet address = 203.26.10.9 zeta.org.au preference = 10, mail exchanger = godzilla.zeta.org.au zeta.org.au nameserver = gidora.kralizec.net.au zeta.org.au nameserver = godzilla.zeta.org.au zeta.org.au nameserver = warrane.connect.com.au zeta.org.au nameserver = munnari.oz.au gidora.kralizec.net.au internet address = 203.26.10.25 godzilla.zeta.org.au internet address = 203.26.10.9 warrane.connect.com.au internet address = 192.189.54.33 munnari.oz.au internet address = 128.250.1.21 gidora.zeta.org.au internet address = 203.26.10.25 Of course, if they actually knew what they were doing, they would have known that the "mail addr" record is used by substituting the first "." with an "@" to get a valid email address. I wonder if I should recommend the O'Reilly "grasshopper" book... Cap. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Personal Privacy 6.0.1 iQA/AwUBN0EEyLztfgpKlX7qEQKHlgCg8M4NOao6o6xMCe9lplisrGwSFvwAoPAJ 0dqriY3TQya8sZdRkOLLwg/i =JDhY -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- "By the taping of my glasses, something geeky this way passes" Captain Nerd cptnerd@nerdwatch.com http://www.nerdwatch.com
From: nick@zeta.org.au (Nick Andrew) Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology Subject: Re: Tech support call received from "Church" Date: 20 May 1999 01:33:50 +1000 Message-ID: <7hulku$3kh$1@gidora.zeta.org.au> In <37416c69.4146319@localhost> happyxenu@my-dejanews.com (Happy Xenu) writes: >Ooh ooh I know what it is! My understanding is that the local >Scientologists only need to try to get rid of .au registered pages, as >opposed to critical webpages that 'live' overseas like mine. They may be >trying to strike that 'crushing blow', ooh scary! I feel crushed already :-) Update: They called Tech Support again on Wednesday morning. The caller identified himself as Henry Bartnic, Public Liason Officer for you-know-who. He left his mobile number and said, "He'd like to 'have a chat with Nick over a coffee' and would appreciate a call to his mobile." I think I'll pass on that offer. Anyway, I don't drink coffee. Amusing: My staffmember referred Henry to http://www.zeta.org.au/~nick/ which contains little other than a link to http://www.xenu.net/. Surely they can't be intending to whine at me about a _link_, of all things. >NB I have a feeling that the http://thingy.apana.org.au/~fun/scn/ >link on your page may be out of date. I could be wrong though. Hmm, better check the links (on my _real_ critical site, golly what could the URL be?!) ... they're all OK, even the one you mentioned. That's what David Gerard calls "2nd Australian site" in a link on his page so it's ok. Top 5 fun ways to open a conversation with a Public Liason Officer: #5 "So tell me more about Xenu..." #4 "Explain to me the cockroach bites on Lisa McPherson's corpse..." #3 "When are you going to pay Wollersheim his millions?" #2 "Are you a clear? What happened on November 18th, 1987?" and #1 "How about that Spanish court case, eh?" Nick. -- Zeta Internet SP4 Fax: +61-2-9233-6545 Voice: 9231-9400 G.P.O. Box 3400, Sydney NSW 1043 http://www.zeta.org.au/