[IMC-Boston-Editorial] [Kenneth.Gerhart at misc.pentagon.mil: RE: Fwd: Sham Posting by J. Dedrick]

[Jonathan D. Proulx]

I'm not sure how I feel about the Defense Intelligence Agency being
happy with our response, I just have to keep telling myself it's the
same I'd do for any request of this type...but it sure beats having
them pissed at us :)

-Jon

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From: "Gerhart, Kenneth, Mr, DIA DXP-2c237" <Kenneth.Gerhart at misc.pentagon.mil>
To: "'Jonathan D. Proulx'" <jon at csail.mit.edu>
Subject: RE: [IMC-Boston-Editorial] Fwd: Sham Posting by J. Dedrick
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2006 09:26:49 -0000
X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2657.72)

Mr. Proulx,

Thank you very much for your prompt and most satisfactory response to this
matter. The omission of material from Mr. Dedrick will improve the quality
of other postings to your site.

Protecting our credibility as an arm of the Department of Defense and of the
Intelligence Community is vitally important so that when we do publish or
say something in the public realm, it is credible.  

Best regards,

Kenneth R. Gerhart
Senior Public Affairs Officer
703-695-9129 (off)
703-614-3692 (fax)


-----Original Message-----
From: Jonathan D. Proulx [mailto:jon at csail.mit.edu] 
Sent: Wednesday, August 23, 2006 10:57 AM
To: Gerhart, Kenneth, Mr, DIA DXP-2c237
Cc: boston-editorial at lists.indymedia.org
Subject: Re: [IMC-Boston-Editorial] Fwd: Sham Posting by J. Dedrick

Mr. Gerhart,

We will remove this article and other we come across with
public_affairs at misc.pentagon.mil as an unverified email address.

The site is based on "open publishing" in which anyone can publish
without establishing an account and the content management system has
no facility for filtering posting based on claimed email address.  As
such we cannot actively block this typy of posting and must rely on
reactive methods.

We are an all volunteer organization and do not read 100% of the
postings to the site.  While we will make all reasonable efforts to
remove misuse of your email address we cannot promise perfection in
this regard.

If you discover postings we have missed please forward teh URL to our
editors at boston-editorial at lists.indymedia.org.

Jonathan Proulx
for Boston Indymedia


On Wed, Aug 23, 2006 at 06:47:29AM -0700, Boston IMC wrote:

:--- "Gerhart, Kenneth, Mr, DIA DXP-2c237"
:<Kenneth.Gerhart at misc.pentagon.mil> wrote:
:
:> From: "Gerhart, Kenneth, Mr, DIA DXP-2c237"
:> 	 <Kenneth.Gerhart at misc.pentagon.mil>
:> To: "'imc-boston-office at indymedia.org'"
:> <imc-boston-office at indymedia.org>
:> Subject: Sham Posting by J. Dedrick
:> Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2006 21:30:01 -0000
:> 
:> Greetings,
:> 
:>  
:> 
:> Mr. Dedrick is a frequent spammer to our U.S.
:> Government email address
:> (public_affairs at misc.pentagon.mil) but I must admit
:> I never expected he
:> would try to masquerade as us and post an article.  
:> 
:>  
:> 
:> Please immediately remove his post
:>
:(http://boston.indymedia.org/newswire/display_any/187000/
:>
:<http://boston.indymedia.org/newswire/display_any/187000/>
:> ) and do not
:> accept any further posting from him if he attempts
:> to use any U.S.
:> Government email address.  Legal action may be
:> required if he continues to
:> misrepresent himself as a U.S. Government entity.
:> 
:>  
:> 
:> Thank you for your cooperation,
:> 
:>  
:> 
:> Kenneth R. Gerhart
:> 
:> Senior Public Affairs Officer

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