1 You are not seeing things. Beyond that, can't help. Sorry.

2 Wow, that's weird. Somehow they've matched the URL www.johnkerryisanasshole.com to your archived page without showing your URL! And the "previous/home/next" links are all civilization-calls pages! What the huh?!

I looked at View -> Source and it's very short.. definitely not your own.

View -> Info didn't look too helpful, but I don't really know what I'm looking at there...

Weird.

3 Very strange but not weird at all. That is, strange that somebody is doing it but not weird in how they're doing it. They've just set up a frame page and populated it with your site, centered on that Kerry post.

Check the whois on the site and see if you can find the owner. If you don't get to it I'll check it in the morning. I'm curious, just out of time for the eve.

4 Linda:

The whois doesn't give a whole lot of useful info, but there's an email address you could try (possibly bogus too though)and a couple of phone numbers to try in order to tell them to knock it the hell off. Here's the info:

Registrant:
Domain Registrant
General Delivery
Kalispell, Montana 59901
United States

Registered through: GoDaddy.com
Domain Name: JOHNKERRYISANASSHOLE.COM
Created on: 30-May-04
Expires on: 30-May-05
Last Updated on: 30-May-04

Administrative Contact:
Registrant, Domain johnkerryblows@softhome.net
General Delivery
Kalispell, Montana 59901
United States
2083618575 Fax -- 8473322978
Technical Contact:
Registrant, Domain johnkerryblows@softhome.net
General Delivery
Kalispell, Montana 59901
United States
2083618575 Fax -- 8473322978

Domain servers in listed order:
PARK17.SECURESERVER.NET
PARK18.SECURESERVER.NET

5 As for an immediate (short term) solution, you could create a new post, copy this one's contents into it, then back date it for the same day. Then 'poison' this post by replacing it with an explanation of what some creep has done by hijacking it, and perhaps 'politely' requesting that the perpetrator kindly fuck off.

Unfortunatley, that means others who have linked to the post won't get to see the real one, but maybe it's worth it, at least temporarily.

Or, you could just edit in a disclaimer about the hijacking at the top of the post.

By the way, I'd say from the bogus address on your last commenter to that post (May 30), he's likely your guy. He's listing the website JohnKerryBlows.com (bogus). The email address used to register the domain is johnkerryblows@softhome.net (an anonymouse email provider). The date of the comment is the same as the date the Website address was registered.

You might be able to trace back against the origin of that email more successfully than using the whois info (unless a phone # pans out) Post the header information from that comment's email here to see what we might be able to dig up on it.

This guy needs to be hunted down & fed to the hamsters.

Paul

6 Wow, you guys, thanks so much!

Unfortunately, the phone number is spoofed: the area code is in Idaho, so that's a bust. Since it's registered through godaddy.com, I think I'll contact the ISP.

From what I can see, the hamster fodder doing this is going online to just set up a bunch of redirect URLS to that one post.

In the meantime, I'm going to put an addendum to the post, listing all the redirect URLS I've discovered so far, and suggesting that the perp consider taking his own g*d*m*f* writing classes, and starting his own blog...

If you guys can think of anything else, I will send virtual chocolate, anime, or ammo, as you please.

7 I like a previous idea -- but with some added snark.

You could copy/paste the original post and date for the same day but a minute earlier.

Then you could replace the text of the linked post with something like:

"To those who've arrived here through a google search and clicked on johnkerrysucks.com have been the foil of a hacker...etc etc...
and the post is HERE." (provide the new link)

Then you could add something like:

"If you ARE the hacker then you may email me to explain yourself.
Do you think that you're so much bigger than your own conscience that you can just hijack my blog post and that I wouldn't notice or care...?....."

My guess is that he didn't mean to do you wrong, but that he just may not understand what bounderies are.

Just an idea about how I might handle it.....

8 [grin]

After thinking about it, that's exactly what I decided to do. I poisoned the original post, moved the text to another post with a slightly later timestamp, and explained what happened.

I think I used more courtesy than the hamster fodder deserved, but the really interesting part of all of this is that the referrers list no longer shows the redirecting URLs.

Maybe somebody got the message, eh?

Thanks you guys. You rock.

Cheers,
Linda
[rolling up in the virtual truck, and piling on the anime, chocolate and ammo -- as promised.]

9 That's 'cause the hacker has redirected the link to THIS.

Congradulations! You've called a guy to task and he's moved on to another target.

Now, maybe, whomever he's stolen his identity from this time will not so courteously ream him a new one and he'll realize that he may just hafta write his own frickin' blog!

Maybe...

10 You have got to be friggin' kidding me? Geezus. [laughs] What a hack.

That's funny.

11 Oh. Ted Sampley. Altho it seems that the majority of veterans have a low opinion of Kerry, this guy has been a real butthead about it, to the extent that Kerry's Secret Service escort has had to warn him off. He needs to figure out that his approach is counterproductive.

12 Led me here: http://www.usvetdsp.com/jf_kerry.htm

13 Well done Linda. And great addition to the concept Spork!

I hafta say, Linda, your idea of poison and mine are a lot different! I have great respect for how you handled it. You took the high road, and accomplished your goal, which was to get 'him' to knock it off.

the fact he's now doing it to somebody else just shows he's not an 'innocent who didn't know any better', but a dickhead. Glad you're rid of him.

In a few days, you might want to try moving the post back, so your external links will work again. I doubt he'd come back. (As long as your logs aren't showing any hits still coming from questionable url's of course.)

Hmmm... this Toblerone's delicious!

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