CCRG Correspondence File – The Statistics

The 63 announcements of the closure of The Millenium Project

On many occasions, Mr O'Neill has announced that this site has been closed down. Some of the communications were sent to me privately, but others were made in Usenet newsgroups. So that the record is complete, similar announcements by other people have been included.

As Google seem to have irrevocably broken the Usenet archive service, links have been disabled. Maybe they will come back some day.

Date	Mr O'Neill	GAL	Who's doing the closing
March 7, 2000			Telstra
March 9, 2000
April 4, 2000			"isp regulators"
July 4, 2000
July 4, 2000
July 6, 2000
August 1, 2000			Search engine operators
August 23, 2000
September 10, 2000			"big pond flushed you"
September 20, 2000
October 25, 2000
November 1, 2000			NSW Police
November 3, 2000
November 11, 2000			NSW Police
November 11, 2000			NSW Police
November 15, 2000			"autralian government regulators"
January 7, 2001			"BigPond Telstra"
January 23, 2001			"no less than 8 isp's"
March 24, 2001			"AUStralIAn Staste hospital"
March 24, 2001
March 25, 2001			"Australian federral police"
March 25, 2001			Someone called "Mr Kyle"
March 29, 2001			"the proper authorities"
March 31, 2001			Announced by ME!!!	Link
April 1, 2001			April Fools Day!!!
April 1, 2001			"Judge Jackson" of the "Australian High Court"
April 1, 2001			"BING-BANG, WILLA-WALLA, TING,TANG"
April 17, 2001
April 26, 2001			"your isp's isp has ordered your site to be shut down"
May 16, 2001
June 10, 2001
June 13, 2001			Dumb-Ditch has been "ordered" to tone down his site'
June 14, 2001			"barrett is coming down....polevoy is on his way....and we guarantee...repeat guarantee your next...."
June 14, 2001			"various individuals in your government"
June 22, 2001			"networksolutions has been most helpful!"
August 3, 2001
August 18, 2001			Some ISPs and the Australian Broadcasting Authority
August 18, 2001
August 19, 2001			ISPs upon ISPs
August 25, 2001			"Problems with your ISP?"
August 25, 2001			"Comindico.com and Webmail".com plus the ABA
August 29, 2001			"Webmail.com.au who has been notified by Comindico.com.au"
September 3, 2001
September 4, 2001			"Telstra.com.au and Comindico.com.au, with the reluctant support of Webmail.com.au"
September 4, 2001			"Telstra, Comindico and Webmail"
September 20, 2001			Optus
September 22, 2001			Optus
September 25, 2001
September 25, 2001			Cominidco.com.au, Telaus.net.au, and Optus.net.au
November 7, 2001			"It has been repeatedly shut down and is now hosted off-shore outside of the juridiction of the civilised world"	Link
November 9, 2001			"tell the class how comindico.com dropped your isp"
December 20, 2001			"Site goes up...site goes down....different Ip addresses....mmmm....?"
December 26, 2001			"found himself sans ISP, again"
January 11, 2002			"telstra/bigpond has dunped mister complete-fucking-loser-ditch"
January 30, 2002			"Seems connect.com.au disconnected mister smart-as-a-booger-ditch and pulled the plug on his ISP"
February 16, 2002			"Your site is coming down?"	Card
August 1, 2002			"The fact is Connect.com.au pulled the plug on Bowditch's ISP"
August 2, 2002			"site had been pulled by Connect.com.au"
August 8, 2002			"about to be shut down by Optus.net.au"
August 15, 2002			"you'd like to lie about how many times your web site has been closed down"
January 8, 2003			The hosting ISP is to be be shut down by its suppliers if this site is till running after 8/1/03.
December 14, 2003			"to shut down Bowdditchs sites and porno web cam service"
April 15, 2007			Ratbags Dead Like Bowditch

And one last thing … (4/5/2013)
I hoped it wasn't someone playing a cruel April Fool's joke when I saw this news in the Ottawa Citizen on April 1.

Yes, folks, the beloved William P O'Neill of the Canadian Cancer Research Group and its descendants has gone to the great cesspit in the sky, taking the Gutless Anonymous Liar with him. Sadly, he died quickly and not of cancer. I posted a message to his memorial guest book, but unfortunately some technical glitch prevented it from being published.

I will maintain my own memorial to him here by archiving his correspondence with me and also the wonderful messages he sent wearing his Gutless Anonymous Liar mask. It would be a tragedy for this valuable collection of literature to disappear.