-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Gee, I think I heard about this rant by baptista a few months ago. It appears that he's merely trying to rehash it but nobody pays attention to him anyway.
It's extremely old !news and apparently he's having to push these logs out manually now that Wordpress and all the other major blogging/news systems have terminated his accounts and blocked him. I did visit the links you provided below John, and it appears that the registry site has been improved. Nice Job on the part of Mr. Mettin. He looks a little like Bill Gates too, let's hope he's got some of Gates' entrepreneurial moxey :) TLDA receives regular reports whenever IAIC registrations occur and Mr. Mettin's registration service appears to be doing well. Kudos! I figured that baptista guy was still out there somewhere under the cybergarbage, but almost everyone has him completely filtered so his tirades simply fall into a black hole. I haven't seen anything from the scumbag in almost a year it seems. Besides, who wants to hear from a convicted pedophile that comes from a family of felons anyway? Even his own father is a convicted Terrorist. Another nice thing, is that TLDA lists are archived by almost all of the list archiving services on the Internet and show up prominently on all search engines ;) On 4/13/2010 12:45 PM, John Palmer wrote: > Joe is correct - I am investigating. > > It appears so far that this student, Christopher Mettin is an > entrepeneur who has created a > TLD registry that is part of Public-Root. > > This is located at: http://tld.gqbc-online.com/index.htm > > This is not a fraud or a crime. If INAIC is in violation of any laws or > registration requirements, > then Joe should report them to the proper authorities. Oh wait, he does > that all of the time and > lo and behold, the matter falls into a black hole. > > Translation: Joe's vendettas against people are of no concern to law > enforcement. They regularily toss > his complaints into the trash. His claim is that they are feckless and > harried by other crimes and "Oh, they > just don't have enough time to investigate". > > Nonsense. If half of Joe's claims were true, many people would be fined > or in prison. Yet, no one has been arrested > or convicted of anything. > > Oh, and by the way, the website listed above is STILL ONLINE and > operating today? How can this be, if its such a > horrible fraud? I'm sure the German police would have stopped this > student if he was committing a crime - right? > > Of course, the answer really is that this is a very smart young man who > is starting a business of his own and is > doing nothing wrong. > > Joe's web page on this matter > (http://baptista.cynikal.net/gqnet/news-item.html) is full of lies, > distortions and slander. Let me list > these: > > Joe claims that the principal of Gymnasium Querfurt said that the > student would be "punished" for some "wrong-doing". I see no mention of > any wrong-doing, except perhaps that he did not make it clear enough > that his website was not the official school website. > The principal mentions some "trouble caused to Joe by the student", but > there is no mention of what this is. My guess: Joe > invented some vague complaint and, as he always does, puts on an air of > authority, making some claim that he has > some rights to speak for the namespace community. The principal probably > took him at his word and thought he was > apologizing to some representative of a large group of people. Joe is NO > SUCH THING. > > On Joe's Querfurt news page, he makes some reference to the student > contacting ARIN for something. First of all, ARIN has > no authority in Europe - RIPE is the RIR for Europe. Secondly, as Joe > often does, he provides NO proof of any such contact. > You would think that if Joe had any evidence of this, he would not > hesitate to post it on this page, but its not there. Why? Probably > because it is all a lie. Joe can clear this up by presenting such > evidence of a fraudulent contact between this student and ARIN. > > Now, lets look at the myriad of lies and distortions in the September > 21, 2009 section of Joe's Querfurt "news" page. > > In this he states: "German high school students at the Gymnasium > Querfurt are the recent victims of a Top-Level Domain (TLD) sales scam > run by Dutch con artist Herman Xennt. Herman known to the Netherlands > police is a convicted felon who was arrested for drug trafficking and > tax evasion." > > Lets take this apart: > > 1. German High School students were NOT victims of a recent Top-Level > Domain sales scam. INAIC is a legitimate business with many paying > customers. If it was a scam, it would have been reported and shut down > by the Dutch authorities. Joes claim that the police are > simply "too busy" all of the time, is nonsense. > > 2. Joe calls Herman Xennt a "con artist". Show me convictions for fraud > that Herman has. There aren't any. > > 3. Herman is not a convicted felon, that I can tell. I have asked for > official copies of any such court papers and > Joe has refused to provide them. > > 4. Some folks were living at the Cyberbunker (Not Xennt) and were > running an XTC lab and it caught fire. They arrested everyone > there including Herman. The subsequent police investigation found that > Herman WAS NOT involved in any way in this drug > lab and he was RELEASED. Joe doesn't tell you that, does he? > > 5. Finally, this section finishes up with one of the old Baptista saws: > "Tax evasion". Again, Joe WHERE ARE THE COURT > RECORDS? > > In the next section, Joe hallucinates: > > "The school joins an impressive list of organizations on the INAIC > victims list. Both the Government of Turkey and SITA (Societe > Internationale de Telecommunications Aeronautique) participated in > marketing stolen property through INAIC. In these cases the intellectual > property rights to top-level domains sold by INAIC are part of a > commercial fraud involving former partners of Herman Xennt and the Top > Level Domain Association, another front for the organization." > > Lets see: > > 1. The school was not a victim of anyone, including INAIC. > > 2. Turkey and SITA were victims alright - of Joe. In 2005, after Herman > and others would not let him run the show, he set out to destroy the > effort and > as part of this effort, he threatened and insulted people in the Turkish > govt and SITA (as well as those at Tiscali and others) into dropping > their support > for the project. You can see one of his accusations against his victims > here, that they participated in "marketing stolen property" - in the US you > can be sued into poverty for making those kinds of false claims. > > 3. What does the TLDA have to do with any of this? I'll tell you what - > the TLDA IS A VICTIM, again, a victim of Joe Baptista. As a founding > member and > officer of the TLDA, I can tell you that Joe has done nothing but try to > destroy our organization. As we began to accomplish things, Joe misused > our > public e-mail lists to further his mad vendetta against Herman and Co. > It got so bad that we finally banished him from the lists. Joe would > regularily insult > our members, including calling Karl Peters a "welfare bum" and insulting > his family. He did similar things to Bradley Thornton, one of our other > active members. > This actually led to a loss of credibility for the TLDA since all the > public saw when they looked in on us was Joe attacking and everyone else > trying to > defend themselves against his vile actions. > > The next section of the website may contain some kernel of truth. It > appears that INAIC has confused Christopher's gqbc-online.de > with an official school project. According to the school principal, this > is not the case. This error should be corrected asap. > > Funny thing is, that later in the new pages, Joe states: > > "Christopher Mettin the schools 18 year old student network > administrator runs the GQnet student project for the Gymnasium Querfurt." > > Joe, wait a moment - you just said that GQNet is being misrepresented as > official school page, now you are claiming that it is official? > Which is is, Joe? > > Joe concludes the Querfurt news section by complaining about > incorporation of INAIC. As stated before, it is probably > illegal in Holland to run a business that is not legitimate and if so > many people were being defrauded, the Dutch authorities would > have closed down this business a long time ago. Why haven't they? Could > it be that INAIC is a legitimate business? You > judge for yourself. : http://www.inaic.com > > Conclusion: This "news" page is just another one of Joe's attempts to > tar people who would not kow-tow to his demands. Joe has > a need to have people consider him a "wise internet guru" and demands > that they all sit at his feet and respect his "wisdom". He > has falsly claimed that he is a "representative" of the "public root" or > otherwise represents the interest of some unknown TLD holders > and others, yet no one of substance has ever come forward saying that > they cede that role to him. Anyone who dares to question > his authority or go against him will be on the receiving end of his > wrath. He will launch an intense vendetta against that person or > persons and will attempt to recruit others into this effort. This is > what happened with the TLDA in the last 3 years - he attempted to > use the legitimacy of the TLDA as a weapon in his vendetta against > Herman Xennt and as a result, almost destroyed it. When those > he tries to recruit show hesitation to join the cause, he adds them to > his list of "enemies" and attacks them as well. This is evident > in his attacks against Karl Peters, the Chairman of the TLDA board. When > Karl asked him to calm down and refused to kow-tow to > him, Joe called Karl a "welfare bum" and insulted Karl's family. A > similar fate befell Bradley Thornton as well. > > What Joe did in 2005 was to destroy a business opportunity that would > have benefitted thousands of organizations and would have > been a credible alternative to the monopoly of ICANN. Everyone should > realize what damage this psychotic has caused. The reason > that I keep harping on this is that I am determined that he not be able > to cause any further damage to people. Education and information > about what he is will go along way towards mitigating future damage. > > Thats why I have the list > http://lair.lionpost.net/mailman/listinfo/baptista-offenses online - as > a repository for all of the information regarding > Joe's antics. Anyone with information on his antics that is not > currently on that list, feel free to join the list and post it. > > My conclusion, until and unless other facts are presented: There was NO > SCANDAL involving the Gymnasium Querfurt or Christopher > Mettin. This student is simply an entrepeneur that has started a small > business and I wish him well and am so sorry that he has > become a pawn in the psychosis of Joe Baptista. For the most part, the > stuff on Joe's Querfurt news page is misleading, omissive and > in places, a flat out lie. > > Thanks for your patience while I investigated. > > If you have any questions, please contact me. > > Cheers, > John > > > > ----- Original Message ----- From: Joe Baptista > To: [email protected] >> GA > Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2010 1:17 PM > Subject: [ga] The ICANN / INAIC scandal drags in the Gymnasium Querfurt > high school again - Palmer investigates > > > It has just come to my attention John Palmer is investigating the > Gymnasium Querfurt scandal - http://bit.ly/5AEP1w - expect more > insightful comments to come this way. > > cheers > joe baptista > > > _______________________________________________ > Public mailing list > [email protected] > http://tldainc.org/mailman/listinfo/public_tldainc.org > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJLxNfsAAoJEE1wgkIhr9j37XoH/1L/P96lLDx4EHJnpPLTYsFV wkIPIPkMVcC2elnviHPKzuWdWYTWxbOdYBIJYv6RUhAGj6mYEfNQ9J0qcVwpPTas Sr03giz6ZL+Oc6AUBvs6/fWAt+zm5s7XMGvVMbPW6P2Xsc4jfxcn7YZDbf4YDG0i oqPuObdv2QErTxWkxznA+qE5g+hJbWTo3qAuib32Z8k1UNFAexP3Vva1CWPMoX8T wn9jB/zh2baHNAAURGJ3JTSny7Pp2OyU2HStElQckr92t0POrT/VEvTyZR2NZobj y8S9/3B2vZPJQOD5OXk0SsmDsmM9PsVQEFDVA5JRQKjXmQMwTg6zfv4/z0p52Vo= =Eu/B -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Public mailing list [email protected] http://tldainc.org/mailman/listinfo/public_tldainc.org
