[Once again, this is 'news'? And it appears as if AntiOnline doesn't
quite grasp what a 'ditty' is.
Ditty \Dit"ty\, n.; pl. Ditties. [OE. dite, OF. diti['e], fr. L.
dictatum, p. p. neut. of dictare to say often, dictate,
compose. See Dictate, v. t.] 1. A saying or utterance;
especially, one that is short and frequently repeated; a
theme.
O, too high ditty for my simple rhyme. --Spenser.
2. A song; a lay; a little poem intended to be sung.
``Religious, martial, or civil ditties.'' --Milton.
And to the warbling lute soft ditties sing. --Sandys.
http://www.antionline.com/cgi-bin/News?type=antionline&date=06-28-1999&story=stats.news
Interesting Little AntiOnline Ditties
Tuesday, June 29, 1999 at 21:02:31
by John Vranesevich - Founder of AntiOnline
[snip...]
AntiOnline currently has 879 'problem' IPs black-holed from
accessing its network.
[Define 'problem'. Since AntiOnline blocks sites like the former
PacketStorm Security, DisOrg, OSALL, and HackerNews, all because
they have a negative opinion of AntiOnline, it calls into
question what 'problem' really means.]
AntiOnline fields some 4,500 incoming e-mails a day.
['Fields'? I doubt they respond to 4,500 pieces of mail a day.
Every person we talk to bitches about unanswered mail. Ranging from
questions, to complaints about DoS attacks, and more.]
AntiOnline sends out an average of nearly 1.2 million solicited
e-mails a month (no spamming from us).
[False. AntiOnline picked up Meinel's HappyHacker subscriber
list apparently. Several people subscribed to the HH list suddenly
found themselves receiving AntiOnline updates. This is not solicited.
I receive *2* copies of each AntiOnline spam at my dimensional.com
account, neither of which I subscribed to. Attempts to unsubscribe
have been unsuccessful.]
AntiOnline's Internal Databases currently contain information on
some 6,000 'hackers'.
["But since you can't have it, you have to take our word for it. And
since our 'clients' are kept quiet from NDA, they can't dispute it either.
So hah!" If the information is anything like his recently obtained
Forpaxe information, you should be scared at the validity of the information.
He also holds information on a supposed 6,000 people, many of which
have legal rights to challenge the information, and insist it not
be included in it. These spam like databases are often wrong.]
AntiOnline is quoted by a major news organization once every 3
days.
[And? People like se7en and Carolyn Meinel are often repeatedly
quoted by the media, yet it has been proven they are charlatans.]
Over 17 seperate Military and Governmental agencies are currently
signed up with AntiOnline's Internal Knowledge Base.
AntiOnline's AntiSearch currently indexes over 131,000 pages of
information related to computer security, hackers, and the
underground.
[AntiSearch also selectively ignores large information sites like
the now defunct PacketStorm and Attrition. The flaky and
*extremley buggy* search engine that creates over 2500 errors
in the Attrition logs alone?]