[John Robinson]

Call For Action Against Free Republic
by cb 2:25am Wed Mar 26 '03 (Modified on 10:13am Thu Mar 27 '03)

The Free Republic has been using up Indy resources by spamming us with prowar anti-protester spewage.

This is a call to give the freepers a taste of what they've been giving for years.

Here's the plan:

Pick a name you have never used before. Go to yahoo or hotmail and create a new email address for that name. Using an anonymizer (or not), such as

http://www.anonymizer.com

or

http://www.guardster.com

join the forum at http://www.freerepublic.com

Wait a few days and just observe. This weekend, begin posting antibush and antiwar material. No doubt they will try to censor it, but this will overload them they way they overload us.

Spread this idea to all imc's

http://www.dc.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=59753&group=webcast

Again, please, lets not descend to such stone throwing ourselves. If you wanna stay cool with me, just remember who has to ultimately deal with their retribution for our retribution against their attack. That would be Jim, our overworked and unpaid moderator staff, and myself. And I have a feeling we'll all be putting in some overtime as the left becomes more marginalized in the near future.

[drlevy88]

You're too much a gentleman. I say just keep on FReep'n um back. We got the staying power.

[DB]

Can you block the IPs of the anonymizer sites?

I know you know, I'm just curious (and hopeful).

[Dont Mention the War]

Is there any evidence whatsoever that Freepers have been spamming Indymedia in mass numbers? It's almost never even mentioned over here except as a joke; I see maybe one reference to them every two to three weeks. They make DU look vibrant and relevant by comparison. Don't we have to care before we would start wasting our time spamming them? The posters at Little Green Footballs are probably 100 times more active on Indymedia, both as readers and posters, than anyone on FR is. Just because you're right-wing (which, from the worldview of the average Indy twerp, includes such conservative luminaries as Hillary Clinton and Eric Alterman) doesn't mean you're a Freeper. F 'em if they can't tell the difference. I'm not going over there. At least DU gives me a laugh; the Indys are just weird, in a not-particularly-pleasant fashion.

[Poohbah]

John, you might want to consider disallowing hotmail/yahoo mail accounts for new registrants.