Re: Anybody heard from that obnoxious jerk Eddie Wollmann?

On 6/24/2020 2:07 PM, carter wrote:
> 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).
> 

:-)