Roadrunner "Abuse" Division Visits my Hillary-Wins Blog then Googles MY NAME. Check out the emails that have been sent back and forth so far.

[Alessandro Machi]

**************A couple of months ago somebody redflagged three of my google blogs and google froze them. I say somebody because I found the same IP address on three of the frozen blogs right at the time my blogs were frozen. I did an ISP lookup and the company "Masergy Communications" came up. I emailed Masergy, two different people, twice, and they never responded.

Either Masergy communcations did the red flagging, or, it was someone else and the IP look up simply directed me to Masergy as being the entity that controls the IP address.

Because Masergy never got back to me I didn't know what to think. So I may be in error below. Just for kicks I checked the IP of someone who had looked up my name on google and Time Warner Roadrunner abuse came up. So I may have erred in assuming they were the ones that were actually looking me up, however, based on what happened a couple of months ago, It seems I can't use the IP addresses for anything practical other than general location of where a viewer is from.

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I rarely check the IP addresses of people who visit my site because I could spend all day doing that and nothing else.

However, when someone goes to one of my Hillary Blogs, AND THEN GOOGLES MY NAME, I do get curious. However, it is a free country so if anything, I can even consider it a positive sign or someone is just curious.

Today, somebody went to my Hillary-Wins blog, and then after viewing my Hillary-Wins website, did a search of my name. When I checked out their IP, I found that they were with RoadRunner, THE ABUSE department!

Here is our email communication back and forth so far.

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I noticed that someone with the IP number of 68.175.84.7 did a search
of my name. While it is a free country and people can look up
someone's name, when I see that the IP is connected to (Roadrunner) "abuse"
it does raise my curiousity.

Can you explain to me what your intent is?

-Alessandro Machi

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Response from Road Runner,

Hello,

Road Runner is unable to release any information regarding subscriber
accounts, including customer-identifying information (name, address,
phone), or actions taken against a subscriber account (suspension,
account termination, etc), without a proper subpoena or court order.

You may address such documents to:

Custodian of Records
Road Runner HoldCo, LLC
13241 Woodland Park Rd
Herndon, VA 20171

You may also fax your document to (703) 345-3607 - Attention: Custodian
of Records.


Thank you for taking the time to contact Road Runner.

- Road Runner Abuse [CK]

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My latest response.

Lets try to be clear about my concern regarding your snooping of my name.
you have the right to snoop, I have only a mild problem with that.

But since you represent the Abuse arm of Roadrunner, clearly you have the
power to disrupt someone's use of your services.

If your "investigation" of "Alessandro Machi" (also the sender of this email),
shows nothing irregular, than I am requesting you send me an email stating
that a review of abuse of my name revealed nothing.

If you don't send me correspondence about the result of your inquiry into abuse about me, I would then consider your actions outside of the law and suspceptible to a lawsuit.

I hope you understand the spirit of what I am requesting you do. If you choose to investigate me, then you MUST send me correspondence whether you find something wrong, or not. If you find nothing, then I get an email letter that states you reviewed my account and found me in good standing, or at the very least, not in bad standing.

Lets be real here for a moment, if you find something you don't like, you will punish me. Therefore, if you find nothing objectionable, I expect to receive an email receipt stating that you found nothing objectionable.

If you refuse to send me an acknowledgement that you investigated my name for the purpose of punishing me in some way, along with your evaluation, then we live in a police state and you are deniers of fairness and freedom.

I am trying to be helpful to you so you don't cross the lines of ethical behavior and snoop on people without letting them know where they stand.

sincerely, Alessandro Machi

[Bitter&Clinging]

UNITY ?

or PUMA!

[writerchick]

Back up your wonderful sites - ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE for the next two months.

Remember who voted for FISA. Obama. He's all about personal privacy invasions for political gain.

[Tea toaD]

If Obama and his minions can do these kinds of things now, it will only get worse in he gets in. I hope you get some kind of answer that is half-way legit:mad:

[Kbentleyis]

I sure hope you get an explanation. But as advised above, back everything up. Gee, it's almost like conspiracy theory 101. I hate unanswered questions that leave you wondering and afraid of what's happening.

[Lodi]

What's Roadrunner????????

[Alessandro Machi]

I'm trying to make sense of this situation.

Someone from Roadrunner Abuse goes to my Hillary-Wins blog, and then decides to google my name, for what purpose? Are they looking for a reason ELSEWHERE involving me that is abusive and then use that as a reason to shut down my blogs?

I assume the Roadrunner abuse department is not affiliated with Google blogs, so what does someone from the Roadrunner abuse department gain by googling my name?

I am presuming Road Runner Abuse sniffing around isn't for peaceful purposes, otherwise they just would have left a comment on my Hillary-wins blog and that would have been the end of it. Since I have never intended to abuse anyone in my communications on the internet, once Road Runner's curiosity is over, shouldn't I get a communication from Roadrunner abuse department that says I "passed"?

Consumer activists should be fighting the fight over these type of monitoring practices because I don't get any kind of an acknowlegement that is positive if nothing is found.

This is cowardice at work, sniff around and try to find something on somebody, but if the sniffers find nothing, then they just slink away.

NOT!

I expect something in return if I "pass" inspection. If inspections of american citizens can go on in an unlimited amount, than every time a citizen passes inspection, they should duly credited as being a law abiding, honorable citizen. Just like a report card from school, if I pass these inspections, I wanted it duly noted on my record.

The practice of inspecting somebody over and over and never crediting them with good behavior needs to be overhauled. If somebody inspects you 500 times and finds nothing, wouldn't you want a record of that?

Afterall, anytime something IS found, a record is made, so why don't we get to have a record of inspections that result in nothing being found?

[Moon Child]

This is starting to get increasingly Orwellian.

[Alessandro Machi]

What's Roadrunner????????

Time Warner Cable has an internet division called Roadrunner.

[LetsHelpAmerica]

Your request should be granted! You did a great job in explaining why you
requested a follow up. I do hope they respond in a respectful and truthful way.
Please do back up your valuable material. Things are really crazy out there!!

[Lodi]

Time Warner Cable has an internet division called Roadrunner.

I see. Thank you.

If I were you, I'd call Time Warner's billing department ASAP and report to them what's happened and that your're about to call and write the FCC and your local Utilities Board and to get a petition going to investigate Roadrunner's Abuse dept.

I'm serious. I got help from the NJ Board of Utilities in Newark in a matter against RCN and the Lefrak Org. back in 2001-03.

Cable companies hate the public utilities watchdogs.

Please, try it!

WARN THE BILLING DEPT ($$$$$) AND THEN GO OVER THEIR HEADS! DON'T BE COWED BY THESE EFFS!

[RickKS]

RTechHandle: ZS30-ARIN
RTechName: ServiceCo LLC
RTechPhone: +1-703-345-3416
RTechEmail: abuse@rr.com

OrgAbuseHandle: ABUSE10-ARIN
OrgAbuseName: Abuse
OrgAbusePhone: +1-703-345-3416
OrgAbuseEmail: abuse@rr.com

OrgTechHandle: IPTEC-ARIN
OrgTechName: IP Tech
OrgTechPhone: +1-703-345-3416
OrgTechEmail: abuse@rr.com

Is this what you are talking about? I looked up the IP that you mentioned. The Abuse is so that YOU can notify RoadRunner if someone is abusing your server with this IP address. I looked up my Roadrunner IP and it is the same. RoadRunner is not looking at your site it's a user.

[Alessandro Machi]

I looked up that IP information myself. The sequence of events is as follows.

Somebody from Time Warner Roadrunner abuse typed in my name on a google search. Why would they think to google my name, I'm not famous. After googling my name, the Time Warner Roadrunner abuse department then checked out my Hillary-wins website.

It appears that somebody from Time Warner Roadrunner abuse is researching my web presence, and was drawn to my Hillary Clinton blog after googling my name.

It's one thing if somebody notifies Time Warner Roadrunner abuse about a SPECIFIC instance of "abuse", but if TW Roadrunner abuse is actively doing google searches TRYING TO FIND instances of abuse as it pertains to one of their own customers, who put them up to it?

Lets say an Obamabot contacted Roadrunner and claimed abuse by me on the internet. If the abuse claim has been made by the Obamabot, the Obamabot would have provided a link. If Roadrunner has been given a link, then why is TW Roadrunner also googling my name and snooping around on my Hillary Clinton blog?

Is Roadrunner doing abuse searches on their own customers who also happen to run Hillary Clinton blogs?

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RTechHandle: ZS30-ARIN
RTechName: ServiceCo LLC
RTechPhone: +1-703-345-3416
RTechEmail: abuse@rr.com

OrgAbuseHandle: ABUSE10-ARIN
OrgAbuseName: Abuse
OrgAbusePhone: +1-703-345-3416
OrgAbuseEmail: abuse@rr.com

OrgTechHandle: IPTEC-ARIN
OrgTechName: IP Tech
OrgTechPhone: +1-703-345-3416
OrgTechEmail: abuse@rr.com

Is this what you are talking about? I looked up the IP that you mentioned. The Abuse is so that YOU can notify RoadRunner if someone is abusing your server with this IP address. I looked up my Roadrunner IP and it is the same. RoadRunner is not looking at your site it's a user.

[Bad Kitty]

Back up your wonderful sites - ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE for the next two months.

Remember who voted for FISA. Obama. He's all about personal privacy invasions for political gain.

Exactly.

[Alessandro Machi]

RTechHandle: ZS30-ARIN
RTechName: ServiceCo LLC
RTechPhone: +1-703-345-3416
RTechEmail: abuse@rr.com

OrgAbuseHandle: ABUSE10-ARIN
OrgAbuseName: Abuse
OrgAbusePhone: +1-703-345-3416
OrgAbuseEmail: abuse@rr.com

OrgTechHandle: IPTEC-ARIN
OrgTechName: IP Tech
OrgTechPhone: +1-703-345-3416
OrgTechEmail: abuse@rr.com

Is this what you are talking about? I looked up the IP that you mentioned. The Abuse is so that YOU can notify RoadRunner if someone is abusing your server with this IP address. I looked up my Roadrunner IP and it is the same. RoadRunner is not looking at your site it's a user.

Are you telling me that when I look up an IP address it just tells me who owns the IP address, not who uses it? Because a couple of months ago Masergy communications was listed as the entity that was on 3 of my blogs just before each one was red flagged and shut down by google for a few days.

I emailed Masergy communications several times and never heard back. If they were directly involved in shutting down my blogs they would have had nothing to hide.

[PA_Voter]

SO, how much will it cost you to get a "proper subpoena or court order"? I'm in... Let's raise the funds to see what they're up to.... Maybe you will become famous! :)

[RachachaSharon]

I looked up that IP information myself. The sequence of events is as follows.

Somebody from Time Warner Roadrunner abuse typed in my name on a google search. Why would they think to google my name, I'm not famous. After googling my name, the Time Warner Roadrunner abuse department then checked out my Hillary-wins website.

It appears that somebody from Time Warner Roadrunner abuse is researching my web presence, and was drawn to my Hillary Clinton blog after googling my name.

It's one thing if somebody notifies Time Warner Roadrunner abuse about a SPECIFIC instance of "abuse", but if TW Roadrunner abuse is actively doing google searches TRYING TO FIND instances of abuse as it pertains to one of their own customers, who put them up to it?

Lets say an Obamabot contacted Roadrunner and claimed abuse by me on the internet. If the abuse claim has been made by the Obamabot, the Obamabot would have provided a link. If Roadrunner has been given a link, then why is TW Roadrunner also googling my name and snooping around on my Hillary Clinton blog?

Is Roadrunner doing abuse searches on their own customers who also happen to run Hillary Clinton blogs?

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Do you run your blog through your Roadrunner account?

[RickKS]

yes, if it is a dynamic ip, it is the owner not the user.
if it is static then the user will only show up if they have reverse PTR records on the DNS.

[Alessandro Machi]

The most important thing to take away from this thread is the following, if any agency is monitoring you or your actions, and you are found to be a "good citizen", lol, or at the very least, NOT a bad citizen, you should be given a "good to go" "rating" on your "dossier".

A dossier is some kind of secret report about you, that every american has, but doesn't really know much about.

Imagine that you have been monitored a thousand times, and you are always found to be a good citizen, then something happens and you are accused of something illegal.

Wouldn't it be helpful to show that a thousand prior times you were found to be a good egg, so that at least a fairer picture is presented of who you are?

Living in a society where certain unknown forces are allowed to review your actions over and over until they find something to nail you on should at the very least be balanced with positive reports when nothing is found wrong.

[Alessandro Machi]

Do you run your blog through your Roadrunner account?

No.

[Alessandro Machi]

yes, if it is a dynamic ip, it is the owner not the user.
if it is static then the user will only show up if they have reverse PTR records on the DNS.

Ok if you can answer this final question than I made a mistake in posting this topic, however the irony is I only can learn that I made a mistake, by posting this topic!:eek:

How do I tell the difference between a static ip and a dynamic ip?

[Hillforceone]

How do I tell the difference between a static ip and a dynamic ip?

By using your common sense.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Static_IP#Static_and_dynamic_IP_addresses

Being less paranoid and making false claims about a major company eying your blog would be somewhat helpful, too - in my personal opinion.


moni k.

[Alessandro Machi]

I appreciate you taking the time to say something so constructive, but it is a viscious but also nonsensical reply.

As I stated up above, and if you had read the thread, when my four google blogs were ALL RED FLAGGED WITHIN THREE MINUTES OF EACH OTHER back in June of this year, I found the SAME IP ADDRESS listed at the time the three blogs were frozen. This means somebody hopscotched my blogs red flagging them. When I tracked the IP to MASERGY COMMUNICATIONS, I emailed two different people at MASERGY COMMUNICATIONS to explain why
an IP listed to them had been on three of my blogs at the same time they were being red flagged.

I NEVER HEARD BACK from Masergy Communications. I was polite in my emails, and sent them twice to two different people there. NO BODY EVER RESPONDED TO ME. If nobody from the first corporation takes the time to explore what might have happened back then that caused the same IP to red flag four of my blogs, then the corporations do deserve suspicion. Nip the justifiable suspicion in the bud when it happens, and then I'm educated. Instead, I had to find out by posting about this new situation on a forum so that enough people would read it and someone would do the work that the prior corporation did not do.

On top of that, I FIRST DID SEND AN EMAIL to the email provided and I got a non answer to my question. I always ask the source first before I make an accusation in public, and twice now I have received substandard replies, unless I include yours, which would make it three.

And by the way, did you bother to try and read the explanation in the link you provided. Get back to me when you can explain it in english.

By using your common sense.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Static_IP#Static_and_dynamic_IP_addresses

Being less paranoid and making false claims about a major company eying your blog would be somewhat helpful, too - in my personal opinion.


moni k.

[Hillforceone]

And by the way, did you bother to try and read the explanation in the link you provided. Get back to me when you can explain it in english.

Yes, of course, I do always bother and never post a link to a page where I have NOT read the content.

And no, I do not have to explain the content of a wikipedia entry in English for you.

Besides, as you can see from my posting, I was replying solely to your question which was "How do I tell the difference between a static ip and a dynamic ip?". You asked that, and I tried to answer that. I am sorry that this gives you the impression that I gave a "nonsensical" reply.

I did not express any opinion on what happened to several of your blogs being flagged within a very short time by the same person. All I can say about this is that I have read some people at No Quarter reporting the same thing around the same time it happened to you. There must be dozens (I do not have an idea what the exact number is) blogs that were flagged and blocked during that time which lead to some bloggers switching from blogspot.com to a blog at wordpress.com. As far as I understand those reported incidents the bloggers say that this was an attack by pro-Obama people to get other blogs out of business. As I personally have not researched this, I do not have first-hand information. In my opinion it is plausible and I also believe that you were one of the many bloggers who were targeted.


moni k.