[ga] FW: Re: The end of ICANN - i've made a decision

["William X. Walsh" <william@dso.net>]

Forwarded FYI, in case anyone here still has questions about the entire "Joe Baptista"
thing, this message contains a URL showing some of this antics.  A rather quick search of
the "non-recent" archives on deja.com also turned up some interesting tid bits.

He's biggest fear is not getting any attention, that no one is listening to him scream.

We have seen that in action.


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Date: Fri, 10 Dec 1999 20:38:55 -0500
Sender: owner-domain-policy@internic.net
From: "John B. Reynolds" <john@REYNOLDS.CHICAGO.IL.US>
To: DOMAIN-POLICY@LISTS.INTERNIC.NET
Subject: Re: The end of ICANN - i've made a decision

I seriously doubt that fax-bombing ICANN will have any effect other than
further destroying your credibility (assuming such a thing is possible).

For further information on !Dr Baptista's past activities, see
http://venus.soci.niu.edu/~cudigest/CUDS7/cud730.

On Fri, 10 Dec 1999 19:39:19 -0500, Joe Baptista <baptista@INAME.COM> wrote:

>It is my decision to make ICANN irrelevant.  Effective immediately I will
>be engaging an infrastructural control and information process which I
>developed some years ago.  Those who are interested may wish to lookup a
>University of Toronto research paper "Information Control Processes and
>Situational Context: Case studies of the employment of information
>technologies by political extremists" by Peter J. Hanus, Faculty of
>Information Studies, University of Toronto April 19, 1995.
>
>The process not only is effective - it is irreversable.  I last used it on
>the Ontario and Canadian governments to shut down FOI proceedures.  It was
>a success which raised capital expenditures by $500 million per year and
>to this day the ramifications of my actions are still very much alive.
>
>Anyone wanting to play, email me privately.  No further public response
>will be made with respect to this subject.
>
>Regards
>Joe Baptista

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