Ahh, Wonkette
digs up the Liberman campaign's hosting tab from its FEC reports.
So it's clearly apparent that the Lieberman campaign has no clue how much they really spent on hosting. They handed over $1,500 over the last quarter to "2 Dog Media" (no hit on Google) to do "web hosting and web changes". So this guy, 2 Dog Media, went out and bought the cheapest web hosting he could find, $15/month, to best maximize his profits.
And it was all the bloggers and Ned Lamont's fault.
Meanwhile, MyDD has released a statement on its own victimhood:
"MyDD is outraged that the Lieberman campaign has decided to attack our web site blog using the hackers on the internet. There is no way our free hosting arrangement that my 13 year old cousin's friend set up using a Mac Classic could be disrupted except through the malicious doings of known cyber-villains Sean Smith and Dan Gerstein."
Update: Dear god, please tell me they didn't use these guys to do their hosting? If that's the same "2 Dog Media", it's no wonder the whole thing was an absolute disaster. Go to that site and tell me you'd entrust your frackin' Senatorial campaign to them!
Update II: Okay, it looks like this is 2 Dog Media. Still not impressive.
And on the email thing, it looks like contrary to assertions, it works just fine. From a techie who just emailed me:
#telnet mail.joe2006.com 25
Trying 69.56.129.130...
Connected to mail.joe2006.com.
Escape character is '^]'.
220-server1.myhostcamp.com ESMTP Exim 4.52 #1 Tue, 08 Aug 2006 15:08:14 -0700
220-We do not authorize the use of this system to transport unsolicited,
220 and/or bulk e-mail.
helo server1.myhostcamp.com Hello [65.96.230.83]
mail from:anonymous@anonymous.com OK
rcpt to:kos@dailykos.com
[my IP address removed] is currently not permitted to relay through this server. Perhaps you have not logged into the pop/imap server in the last 30 minutes or do not have SMTP Authentication turned on in your email client.
In other words it works fine, I just don't have the credentials to use it.
POP3 server
#telnet mail.joe2006.com 110
Trying 69.56.129.130...
Connected to mail.joe2006.com.
Escape character is '^]'.
+OK POP3 server1 [cppop 20.0] at [69.56.129.130]
user joe
+OK Need a password
pass idontknow
-ERR Username/Password Mismatch
Connection closed by foreign host.
Same deal. Responded just fine, just not without a password. To me that's a working server.
Update III: Here we have a test email successfully sent to a Joe Lieberman staffer:
Trying 69.56.129.130...
Connected to mail.joe2006.com.<
Escape character is '^]'.
220-server1.myhostcamp.com ESMTP Exim 4.52 #1 Tue, 08 Aug 2006 15:33:59 -0700
220-We do not authorize the use of this system to transport unsolicited, and/or bulk e-mail.
helo test.com server1.myhostcamp.com Hello test.com [192.168.0.1]
mail from: test@test.com OK
rcpt to: jnerpel@joe2006.com Accepted data
354 Enter message, ending with "." on a line by itself
Test.
250 OK id=1GAaFX-0003Or-Ht
quit server1.myhostcamp.com closing connection
Traditional media outlets have the tech people inhouse to do similar tests to verify these sorts of things.