Tech support call received from "Church"

Nick Andrew and "Captain Nerd", 18-20 May 1999

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.
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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>

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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.


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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.
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Zeta Internet                     SP4   Fax: +61-2-9233-6545 Voice: 9231-9400
G.P.O. Box 3400, Sydney NSW 1043        http://www.zeta.org.au/