Anybody heard from that obnoxious jerk Eddie Wollmann?

Edmond Wollmann's Reputation Profile

Criminal or Civil Court records found on Edmond's Background Report
Lawsuits, Liens or Bankruptcies found on Edmond's Background Report
Criminal or Civil Court records found on Edmond's Family, Friends, 
Neighbors, or Classmates

"Summary: This report is fraudulent. I have no court records other than 
the lawsuit I won for hundreds of thousands of dollars. The websites this 
fraudulent company lists as mine are fake. my website is 
http://home.earthlink.net/~arcturianone/ Edmond Wollmann is 63 years old 
and was born on 5/12/1955. Currently, he lives in Veguita, NM, and San 
Diego, CA. Edmond's education includes 3 university degrees and attending 
los lunas high school. His ethnicity is Caucasian, whose political 
affiliation is currently a registered Independent; and religious views are 
listed as Other. Edmond is now single, and also has 1 children. He has a 
reported annual income of $50,000 - $59,999 and a current net worth value 
of greater than $1m. Read Full Summary"

https://www.mylife.com/edmond-wollmann/e378093728250

http://www.smbtech.com/ed/

Information About Edmond H. Wollmann's
Abuse of the ISP Complaints Process
Update 7/30/99:
In an email to the owner of this server, Edmond threatened,
"Remove your defamation or I'll walk down there and yank it off"

See the archive of Ed Wollmann's threats to and harrassment of this site's 
owner.

Who is the target audience for this web page?

Although anyone is welcome to read it, this page was written to serve as a 
resource for ISP abuse admins.
Who wrote this web page?

The authors of this page are a group of Usenet readers and admins who 
detest Usenet spamming, EMP, email abuse, and other forms of net abuse. If 
you are investigating a true spammer or abuser, we sincerely hope that 
your investigation serves justice. However, you were likely referred to 
this page because actual net abuse may not have been done by your user. 
Rather, the claim of abuse has been made by a person well known for 
flooding abuse admins with spurious complaints. 
Who is Edmond Wollmann?

Mr. Wollmann is a well-known abuser of the ISP abuse process.  He harasses 
many people whom he encounters in Usenet by sending numerous complaints to 
his targets' ISPs.  Frequently he involves the ISPs' upstream providers 
and news peers as well.
Why a web page about Mr. Wollmann was needed   

Which newsgroups are most affected by Mr. Wollmann's complaint letters?

We know to date that Mr. Wollmann is sending complaints about many regular 
posters in alt.astrology, alt.astrology.metapsych, alt.usenet.kooks, and 
news.admin.net-abuse.usenet. However, Mr. Wollmann will often check on an 
authors posting history, and bombard his victims' "home" newsgroup with 
forwaded and off-topic posts in an attempt to intimidate a poster to stop 
posting to "Ed's" group(s).
Who has had complaints sent about them by Mr. Wollmann?

We do not know for sure how many people have had this happen to them.  For 
one thing, if an ISP (wisely in our opinion) chooses to ignore him, his 
target is not always aware that Mr. Wollmann has been complaining about 
him or her.  However, there is more than enough information to show that 
Mr. Wollmann is harassing quite a few people with the number and volume of 
complaints that he sends.  Documentation is available at this link:
 Your customer is not alone: some of Wollmann's many targets
 

What do news and abuse admins say about Mr. Wollmann?

Several abuse admins have been willing to "go public" with their 
experiences with Edmond Wollmann.  They rightfully grow tired of his 
spurious complaints and address morphing to thwart their mailfilters.
"Mr. Wollmann seems sadly ignorant of the legal doctrine of "unclean 
hands." Essentially what it means is that a court will not grant relief to 
one who complains of being damaged if the complainant has himself engaged 
in abuse related to the cause of action." -Jason Barr, PBI Policy Manager

"Mr. Wollman's account at AzNET was cancelled due to multiple, seemingly 
endless complaints about his abusive behavior in Usenet."- Jack Bailey, 
Aznet

"...Eddie first came to my attention: a complaint from columbia.edu about 
the complaints they had been receiving from Eddie, as many as 300 per 
day....His *thing* is abusing abuse departments. If he doesn't get his way 
with complaints, he'll call up and harass the abuse department. If they 
manage to avoid his calls (or direct him to cease and desist phoning), he 
sends large numbers of duplicate complaints via email." Nick Nicholas, 
Executive Director, Mail Abuse Prevention System LLC, mail-abuse.org 
(formerly of pacbell.net)

"You have a worthless charter given that you chose to made your group 
[alt.astrology.metapsych] unmoderated. I think you set it up to attempt to 
kill accounts and that it should be rmgrouped as a trap and public 
nuisiance." -Rebecca Ore, respected n.a.n.a-u participant.

More documentation is available at this link:

 Abuse admins re: Edmond Wollmann
 

And what has Mr. Wollmann said about admins and ISPs?

Mr. Wollmann on the subject of ISPs and their employees
What has Mr. Wollmann done to lose credibility with many people?

Mr. Wollmann has shown himself in many ways to be a poor Netizen and not 
someone whose opinion can be trusted about the appropriateness of 
another's postings.  In addition, many of the actions which Mr. Wollmann 
accuses others of in his complaints are actually things he has done 
himself in Usenet.  Documentation is available at the links below:
Mr. Wollmann Spams Usenet
 Mr. Wollmann frequently sends complaints about others "spamming" even 
when the posts being complained about do not fall under the Skirvin 
guidelines. This is ironic, because Wollmann is well aware of what 
constitutes spam. He was TOSsed from AOL and lost 6 accounts there for 
spamming. Wollmann also has spammed from both Earthlink and ATT Worldnet, 
documented by thoroughly detailed spam reports and multiple cancels of his 
spam.

Mr. Wollmann Censors by Illegitimately issuing Third-Party Cancels for 
Others' Usenet posts
Mr. Wollmann has never owned up to his own censorious activities. In July 
of 1997, he issued a rash of over 50 illegitimate third-party cancels for 
Usenet posts with which he apparently had some issue with. Many of the 
posts he attempted to cancel made it to DejaNews, so that it can be seen 
that posters were sometimes merely criticising him. Wollman's outrageous 
"Netcopping" behavior is grevious Net Abuse.

He has publicly admitted to his intention to send thousands of complaints
Mr. Wollmann has announced in Usenet, many times, his intentions to send 
volumionus complaints.

He makes "off-topic" complaints about others while he frequently posts 
off-topic
Mr. Wollmann likes to complain about other posters being "off-topic".  He 
does this in a hypervigilant manner and so disrupts normal Usenet 
conversation.  However, he often makes off-topic posts himself -- 
especially when he discussed complaints he has sent.  He often adds 
unrelated newsgroups to his posts. He also often sets follow-ups to his 
posts to go to alt.dev.null rather than to the groups where his messages 
were posted.

alt.astrology.metapsych: so many "off-topic" complaints that a new charter 
was needed
Mr. Wollmann admitted to adding this group in his cross-posts in 
particular--in order to entrap persons following up his posts so that he 
could send "off-topic" complaints about them.  He became such a nuisance 
that a consensus was reached to create a new charter for this group which 
would make it harder for him to send these complaints about posters being 
off-topic there.
 

Mr. Wollmann himself frequently posts abusively in Usenet
Nobody involved with this site denies Mr. Wollmann's right to engage in 
flame wars and be as insulting or as profane as he wants to be. There is a 
difference, however, between abuse ON the Net and abuse OF the Net. Many 
of Mr. Wollmann's complaints are about abusive and defaming posts even as 
he insults, defames, and abuses other posters.  He posts, without 
permission,  private e-mail sent to him.  He has made threats regarding 
posters' places of business, mailbombing threats, threats of telephone 
harassment, threats to force his in-person presence upon other posters, 
and at least one explicit threat to commit physical violence.

What is Mr. Wollmann's email account address?

Unfortunately, there is no simple answer to this question!  Edmond 
Wollmann abuses the Net in several ways, and as a result frequently loses 
Internet accounts.  Not only does he change address frequently, but also 
often sends complaints from more than one address at a time -- which can 
make it seem as though many people are complaining about an individual 
when that is the fact not the case.  Documentation is available at this 
link:
 Some of his current and past accounts & why he has lost many of these 
accounts

 

Mr. Wollmann, Award-Winning Netizen

Mr. Wollmann actually won a Usenet award, titled "Kook of the Month", for 
his Usenet posts of February, 1998.  Click here to view some of the posts 
he made at that time which earned him this distinction.

Wollmann Usenet Post Archive 2/98 to 7/99

Download your own reference archive for Mr. Wollmann's Usenet posts for 
the past 1.5 years (2mb .zip file expands to 7mb text file).