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From An Email: Huge List Of IP Addresses Blocked By June Maxam, North Country Gazette Verifies Our Assumptions And The Complaints We Have Received From Third Parties
March 24th, 2008
CHESTERTOWN, NEW YORK - We just received an anonymous email from India containing a list of nearly 450 IP addresses blocked by blogger June Maxam. Any individual assigned these IP addresses are banned from visiting her little North Country Gazette blog. We were able to independently verify a random sampling of the IP addresses, and they are in fact blocked by Maxam. Also, many of the addresses have visited Bad Cop News in the past couple of years.
We had to discuss publishing this list, and even asked an attorney. But, since none of the IP addresses actually identify an innocent third party, nobody cares who is actually visiting (or can’t visit, in this case) Maxam’s site, the list has no intrinsic or monetary value, there are no copyrights involved, there is no “proprietary information” contanined in an IP address, none of the IP addresses “belong” to June Maxam, it originated overseas, and the Bad Cop News server is offshore, we decided they are fair game. If your IP address is listed and you want it removed, drop us an email (see contact page).
This verifies the previous Bad Cop News assumption that Maxam READS her server blogs, looking for people to ban from her blog, and blocks those she doesn’t like with whom she’s swapped email, etc.
While every other blogger in the universe is trying to increase the number of visitors to their blog, June Maxam is trying to decrease the number coming to hers. Fortunately there aren’t many visitors to begin with, so she probably only has to spend half of her waking hours going through her log files and banning visitors.
Remember this, the next time she’s screaming freedom of the press, freedom of information, first amendment, etc… Those only apply to her, not the rest of the country.
Update:
Someone “friendly” with June Maxam, and a prior source of info emailed saying Maxam isn’t smart enough to move her site to a new hosting company, is looking for someone to do it for her, which is the source of her bitching about moving.
The sender drew our attention to “Due to IPowerWeb and HostPC, The North Country Gazette is ceasing operations on March 31 unless a transfer to a reliable hosting company can be effected.”, saying that “…someone at HostPC thought to stick her name in a search engine and decided they wanted no part of her or her site. I know cause [really good reason removed]. It has absolutely nothing to do with [removed] contacting them, linking the our local cops to the failed move only exists in june’s mind. remember two years ago I told you she’s nuts… she is even worse now without her mommy.” [BCN: 2 spelling corrections. Removed personal info and third-party's name]
**DISCLAIMER** List updated to include some IP netblock owners by a contributor. Contributer notes that his employer is represented on the list. BCN owner’s employer is also on the list. Listing these telcos has nothing to do with our employment with either, they just happened to be on the list.
Note: Some of the IP addresses in the list below are proxy servers. Their appearance on the list is significant, in that they are blocking hundreds, thousands, or 10’s of thousands (or more) of visitors to the North Country Gazette. Note that Maxam has blocked several police departments too :)
Subject: IP’s banned by June Maxam
From: ****
Date: Mon, March 24, 2008
To: *****
Priority: Normal
12.150.240.130 - HUNTSVILLE HOSPITAL SYSTEM
12.164.183.2 - SQUARE D COMPANY (Electrical Manufacturer)
12.218.24.158 - Mediacom Communications
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