[anti-abuse-wg] Mr. Alexander Freeman

In my prior posting to this list, I was seriously remiss about one thing.

It is apparently from his quick response to my posting last night
(PDT -0700) that Mr. Freeman is either a direct subscriber to this
list or else he's reading the list traffic on a routine basis, as
it is being forwarded to him by some other party.  Anyway, even if he
is not a list subscriber, it's an open list, and he's free to join
as a regular subscriber & contributor whenever he wants.

Mr. Freeman apparently feels that I have here portrayed his company,
Host Sailor Ltd. in an unfair and unflattering light.  If so it appears
that I am in good company, as all of the links I've provided to other
unflattering online portrails of Host Sailor Ltd. have amply demonstrated.
(Perhaps Mr. Freeman might like to consider petitioning...  or threatening...
all of those web sites into modifying THEIR appraisals of his company also,
and he might even want to consider petitioning Google, Inc. and asking
them to stop serving up any results at all for the search terms
"HostSailor exploit".)

Ignoring, for the moment, those possible public reputation harm mitigation
steps, it does appear that the things that are most vexing to Mr. Freeman
at the present moment are my public comments here on this list.  If so,
then it would seem that Mr. Freeman, as a subscriber to this list, could
rather easily set the record straight by providing his own alternative
explanations and/or interpretations of the material I've presented here.
And also, that he could do so directly, himself, right here on this open
list, anytime he wants.

I hereby invite him to do so.

It is clearly not in the interests of any of the subscribers/participants
of this list to only have access to facts and/or opinions which are
substantially inaccurate.  Conversely, it *is* in the interests of everyone
here to know the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.  If,
as he apparently believes, Mr. Freeman has a better claim to the truth
than the facts and evidence that I have posted here about his company,
then I most certainly invite him to share that with all of us here, and
in the process of so doing, repair any damage to his or his company's
public reputation that may have been done.

Indeed, if Mr. Freeman ever does make contact with any actual member of the
bar, he may then become informed that legal damages which may be awarded
in the context of a defamation suit are, to no small extent, dependent
upon the plaintiff's demonstrated willingness... or lack thereof... to
actively mitigate his own damages.  In short, if Mr. Freeman genuinely
feels that his public reputation has been materially damaged by any
unfair or untrue comments that have been posted to this list, then he
himself can easily mitigate those damages, in full, by posting his own
exculpatory evidence and opinions, right here, right now, on the very
same list where he feels that he and/or his company have been represented
unfairly.  I reiterate my invitation for him to do so, and for him to do
so right here, right now, on this very list.

Please note that my invitation to Mr. Freeman is not even contingent upon
him presenting any bona fides which would serve to validate that he even
is empowered to speak for Host Sailor, Ltd.  Indeed, as I've previously
mentioned, despite a reasonably diligent search, I have been utterly
unable to find _any_ online records which would tend to support the view
that Host Sailor, Ltd. is even a properly registered corporate entity
with *any* government, anywhere on planet Earth.  (If I've just missed
such documentation during my search, then I do look forward to Mr. Freeman
pointing me at it.  Note also that I do not count RIPE WHOIS records as
being even minimally persusuasive evidence when it comes to the actual
legal existance for any entity.  I am also and equally unpersuaded by
the various stories I've heard about Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, and
the Tooth Fairy.)

Separately, of course, even if it is in fact the case that Host Sailor,
Ltd. is properly incorporated... somewhere...  it would be helpful to
know... and to see at least some scrap of actual documentation of...
anything that would tend to show that Mr. Freeman is actually even an
officer of the company... rather than say, the janitor, or just some
wayward prankster or HostSailor client who somehow managed to get hold
of a @hostsailor.com e-mail address, and who then went about constructing
a free LinkedIn account to make himself seem like an actual legal repre-
sentative, empowered to speak for the company.

As I say, I personally am willing to forego any evidence at all that Mr.
Freeman either (a) is who he says he is or (b) that he is even authorized
to represent Host Sailor Ltd. in _any_ capacity whatsoever.  At least I
am willing to utterly forgo _any_ bona fides from Mr. Freeman when it comes
to my invitation to him to come here, to this list, and provide whatever
truth he feels has been missed.

With respect to his legal saber rattling however, I feel compelled to
inform the alleged Mr. Freeman that I wasn't born yesterday, and that thus,
I do not tend to cower in fear in response to legal threats from people
whose authority to even issue such corporate fatwas is entirely unverifiable.

That having been said, I do very much look forward to receiving threating
snail-mail letters from Host Sailor's UAE and/or Belizian counsel.  Any
such will be gleefully returned to sender with a note attached suggesting
the forceful implantation of said letter(s) in a locale typically protected
from solar radiation.


Regards,
rfg