Greetings all,
I noticed that there has been a plague of complaints against Teaspring.com here in rfdt and on other tea discussion forums. I did a little research into this and found some very interesting information regarding the posters of these complaints.
If you check the headers of these messages, you will notice they were all posted using the same IP address (63.229.10.116) using the same usenet host (news.uswest.net owned by Qwest Communications Corporation).
See the following headers for details:
Subject: Yeah! I got fraud by Teaspring.com too! From: Alan Message-ID: Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2006 16:53:18 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 63.229.10.116 X-Trace: news.uswest.net 1142873598 63.229.10.116 (Mon, 20 Mar 2006
10:53:18 CST)Subject: Re: Re: Teaspring.com is a fraud site! From: LavenderPeter Message-ID: Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2006 19:08:57 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 63.229.10.116 X-Trace: news.uswest.net 1143140937 63.229.10.116 (Thu, 23 Mar 2006
13:08:57 CST)Subject: Re: Re: Teaspring.com is a fraud site! From: Tea Man Message-ID: Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2006 19:23:19 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 63.229.10.116 X-Trace: news.uswest.net 1143141799 63.229.10.116 (Thu, 23 Mar 2006
13:23:19 CST)What can be concluded from this evidence, is that Tea Man, LavendarPeter and Alan are all the same person. It would be very easy to contact this person's ISP and file a complaint, if one was so inclined.
That said, I think we can all agree to ignore this person and his false accusations.
- Robit