JACKSON DECRIES POOR REPUTATION

What goes around comes around. Keith Jackson of PNG Attitude is crying aloud that Barracuda Central Reputation System has blocked his emails because of "poor reputation". Please click:

Is 'The National' playing dirty with my reputation?

He had been in contact with a journalist of The National newspaper and puts the blame squarely on the newspaper.

Perhaps the journalist was the one who sent hate mails to all about the founder of AIDS Holistics. See Great Lady Speaks Out below:

Jackson defended himself to Barracuda claiming that he is "occasionally critical"of The National.

That is the understatement of the year. Like his treatment of AIDS Holistics, he has been working to destroy the newspaper.

He once accused AIDS Holistics of attacking his blog which he followed up with a spate of hate mail on blog.

He was defending the Australian gay and lesbian agenda. Hate mail on PNG Attitude was rejected by faithful readers. Please click:

GREAT LADY SPEAKS OUT

He is highly critical of The National in sacking Russell Soaba and Nou Vada and rejection of Martyn Namarong.

But he is blithely un-self critical at his own banning of any input of AIDS Holistics with direct and indirect vilification of the founder. Please click:

GAY FILTH ON INTERNET

The report below sets out the basis of massive ill-feeling between Jackson and Rimbunan Hijau, owner of The National.

It shows why AIDS Holistics came to become an innocent victim blamed for hate mails sent out in support of Rimbunan Hijau.

The author of the report above was probably a journalist working for The National using my identity as a cover. Please click:

NEW LIGHT DAWNS ON HATE

Positive Living is a national message. It is not Jackson's personal plaything. Still, he is being loyal to the expatriate gays and paedophiles.

Accolytes sprang to his defence with a little damage control. See report below.

People who live in glass houses should not throw stones. Jackson is not a very clever tactician. Inside every massive ego is the seed of its own destruction.

He should not have posted this report. Sorry overseas readers. But it is all part of the gay and lesbian big picture.

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Is 'The National' playing dirty with my reputation?

BY KEITH JACKSON

YESTERDAY I RECEIVED an interesting email from an outfit called the Barracuda Central Reputation System.

It was electronically generated and it said: “Sorry, your email was blocked based on its originating IP address having a poor reputation.”

The originating address was my personal email. My reaction was ‘who’d accuse me of that - like a poor reputation?’

And then the light bulb went on. The person I’d been trying to contact was a colleague at The National newspaper; a journalist who I will not name so as to protect his well-being in what seems like a pretty toxic organisation.

I protested to Barracuda (I mean, who wants to be known as a person of poor repute). And Barracuda immediately removed me from its blocklist for 30 days, while it ‘reevaluates’.

Here’s an extract from what I wrote to Barracuda:

It seems The National newspaper in Papua New Guinea has placed me on your list for a political, not for any ethical, reason.  I am dismayed that you should so list me without any attempt to ascertain my credentials.

I run a blog, PNG Attitude, in which some writers are occasionally critical of The National, and this probably explains the blocking.

PNG Attitude, is one of the most read blogs on Australia-PNG relations.

The blocking of my emails to colleagues and friends of mine at The National is a malicious act which I hope you will put to rights.

It appears almost certain that someone at The National invoked the ‘poor reputation’ slur; probably a person senior enough to act officially on behalf of the newspaper.

If this be the case, it was a low, sleazy and reprehensible thing to do.

Of course, The National is itself getting a bit of a reputation - for censorship. It recently banned Russell Soaba and Nou Vada from its pages and won’t even mention the name of Martyn Namorong.

Perhaps we should judge the reputation of The National accordingly.

Who the hell do they think they are?

The Martyn Namorong post at the head of this page has been spammed mercilessly with well over 100 faux comments in the last 24 hours.

As a result I've had to add a comment verification step for commenters. My apologies for the additional work this imposes...

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Dylan, there is no problem with blocking an address because of persistent spam - it seems the right move to make. But why can't the message to the blocked address say just that, rather than the "poor reputation" line. I despair at the use of the English language.

Posted by: Peter Warwick | 16 May 2012 at 07:16 AM

Hi Keith - By poor reputation, Barracuda usually means it in a technical sense rather than personal (i.e. you are on an ip range that has been reported for spam - or has been infected with malware etc).

They can even end up blocking whole hosts for persistent issues. It also doesn't necessarily mean that the issues are to do with the person you have been emailing - as they use data reported in one area to help filter others.

Posted by: Dylan Brown | 16 May 2012 at 06:25 AM