Not Knowing When To Quit

Posted By on July 28, 2006 at 3:54 am

Jeff Goldstein and his family are under attack again. Known nutcase Deb Frisch is the presumptive malefactor.
The far fringes of the Left cannot out-argue Jeff on the points, so instead they try to silence him in other ways. One has, for the moment, succeeded… I hope it’s only for the very short term.
Warning: there may be some extremely vile language in some of these links. Deb is not a rational person, and tends to inspire, shall we say, strong feelings in the comments of people who disagree with her.

I did a traceroute based on the IP address Ace posted – see a similar result at DNSstuff.com.
Hop number 14 in the traceroute linked above is at a device called eugn-dsl-gw01-97.eugn.qwest.net, which to those of us in the networking business shows that the destination address connects to a DSL gateway router in Eugene, Oregon. Surprise, surprise… this is the area of the country in which the ex-professor Frisch has said she resides.
Coincidentally, this is the same gateway that Deb was connected to the last time she pulled this crap, immediately before her departure from the University of Arizona. [I helped Jeff with the IP, DNS and other lookups at that time.]
It’s time for Deb Frisch to disappear into the confines of a cell, padded or otherwise, and down the memory hole as well.
Internet verb, indeed.
Update(s) below the fold…

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Patterico… Suavé

Posted By on July 27, 2006 at 2:34 pm

At Patterico’s Pontifications, Patrick Frey documents, at length and with class and humor, the full tale of Glenn Greenwald’s sock-puppetry.
Sock puppetry — the use of pseudonymous commenters to defend one’s self or to advance one’s own talking points, thus implying that there are actually people who agree with you — is a bloggery misdemeanor* that, while not itself necessarily invalidating any arguments the blogger/puppeteer makes, does indeed speak to the honesty of the blogger/puppeteer.
In a media where personal credibility is all-important, evident dishonesty is perhaps good cause to question any or all of the blogger’s product.
* As opposed to, say, using blog posts and/or comments to threaten people with whom you disagree — a blogging (and, y’know, probably an actual) felony.