PNGScape, It’s History and Ownership

(Source: http://niuginicafe.com/index.php?cat=1)
Port Moresby NCD 2010-06-18 23:14:00

Here is a history of the PNGSCape site and its connection to other sites and to Mr Anthony Smare as I can write it, being that I was a witness to many of the events described here.

In the period around 1996-2000, Anthony Smare was a student at the Queensland Institute of Technology in Brisbane. Already he was known as an internet junkie and spent large amounts of time on the internet as his PNG colleagues witnessed. Often he worked on his assignments in the QUT library leaving the internet on in the background. During this time,Smare posted frequently on what was the main forum for Papua New Guineans. Known as the Wantoks Forum, it was started in 1996 by Taholo Kami and run partly by brother Steven Kami, both of whom grew up in PNG (missionary father) but originally were from Tonga. Taholo Kami at first was the moderator, with Steven Kami later coming in to help, especially when Taholo left his United Nations job in the USA and moved to Tonga. Steven Kami at that time was a Port Moresby based lawyer at Warner Shand.

In 1998 while at QUT, Anthony Smare was the principal initiator of an organization for PNG overseas students, mainly those in Australia. It was known as Kumul Scholars International (KSI) and has now essentially collapsed. In 2000, a dispute arose on Wantoks Forum over KSI funds and how they had been disbursed. Some attention focused on Nathan Wingti,the former PM’s son who had a position with KSI and whom Smare lavished praise on. Smare,who was in charge of KSI, refused to release a public accounting for these funds, saying that only the donors were entitled to see it. While technically Smare was correct, the incident became a public relations nightmare for the young leader as the controversy was brought up repeatedly on the Wantoks Forum, spun off an alternative web site and in general created an antagonistic opposition to Mr Smare.

By 2001 Mr Smare had graduated from QUT with a combined geology and law degree and was hired by Arthur Allens Robinson legal firm in Melbourne. He continued to be associated with KSI as its patron and maintained contacts through that association. Mr Smare prided himself as an exceptional future leader of PNG and had a loyal group of strong supporters who tried their best to deflect criticism of Smare on the internet and elsewhere. At the time there was frequent talk that Smare would someday be PM, and the similarity of Smare’s surname with that of PNG’s founding father was often noted.

Smare occasionally registered his disgust at personal attacks and a deterioration in the quality of discussions at Wantoks Forum, both in person and on internet postings. By 1999, Smare had created a small forum on PNG development issues (www.voy.com/1950/) utilising the free discussion site offers at Voy. This fit into the overall picture of Smare becoming a new young leader with a strong support base and internet presence. However,the criticism surrounding KSI, including the non-public release of its financial reports, had already begun to alter Smare’s presence on the internet. Although some postings were virtually certain to have originated by his hand, he no longer always put his name to those postings. Also Smare did not directly admit to having set up the forum at voy.com for example, although it was no secret to his friends.

In 2001 Mr Smare advertised on Wantoks forum asking for help to set up an internet site. By 2002, PNGScape was born, taking advantage of the free forum setup site at www.Network54.com. When PNGSCape appeared on the internet in much the same form as exists today, a number of postings began to appear on the Wantoks forum by anonymous sources, trying to direct people over to PNGScape. Wantoks Forum erased these postings soon after they were put up but the postings continued on and seemed to eventually wear down the Wantoks Forum admin. Smare’s PNGScape ultimately took away the great portion of the Wantoks Forum audience and Wantoks Forum folded by 2004. At the time some postings challenged the PNGScape advertisements or investigated them. Various pieces of evidence were offered that clearly connected the PNGScape promoters to the law office in Melbourne where Anthony Smare was employed. It was also clearly established that Smare used this IP in postings signed with his name. What was never conclusively established was whether the actual postings promoting PNGScape were from Smare’s hand or instead came from a colleague, workmate or wantok who was using the internet at that law office and obviously known to Mr Smare.

Unlike Wantoks Forum,which tried to sell PNG artifacts from the web site, there has never been evidence that PNGScape existed for any purpose of financial gain. What is the more likely motivator was to create a networking and education tool that could bring together concerned Papua New Guineans to discuss issues and socialize and which would add to an overall Smare movement for change in PNG. Unfortunately, Smare’s personal conservatism, possibly combined with his training as a lawyer, prepared him poorly to successfully face the political changes that any leader, formal and informal, must face. As a result, his actions tended to further antagonize opponents rather than bring them into his camp as a person with keen political skills would be able to do. Also,Smare chose to work within the government to bring about change at a time when increasing frustration around him was creating a movement of activists who demanded change from outside the system. Over time, Smare fell to the side of the movement that today is quickly expanding in PNG and involves both NGOs and a grassroots protest movement. Anthony Smare is conspicuous by his absence in the current protests against corruption.

Soon after PNGScape was launched, Smare’s voy.com site was abandoned and later taken over by large numbers of vanilla postings. The old voy forum was reborn as the PNGScape Kumul Development Forum, although Smare’s name was left out when describing the transfer.

At first, PNGScape may have been moderated by Smare himself but his time was increasingly occupied by his professional development. A mixed race Kerema-Aussie woman who lives in Tasmania appeared as one of the first moderators, under the pen name 7milebeach. The actual identity of this person has not been published on the internet, but she supposedly met Smare through PNG student get-togethers in Australia and may have lived in Melbourne at the time. She is a woman, supposedly in her 40’s working in some form of media, and married to an Australian policeman.

Another early moderator went by the pen name of sexxiicoolguy. This is Brian Tobias,who also studied in Australia but is now based at the University of PNG. For several years, however, 7milebeach carried out the lion’s share of moderation duties at PNGScape, occasionally complaining in postings that she had been abandoned by ‘Wantokz’ and was having to do everything herself. Even then, she referred to‘Wantokz’ with reverence, very much the way anonymous posters used to support mentions of Smare on Wantoks Forum This led to speculation that the God like figure Wantokz was actually Tony Smare.

Although it is now fairly clear that there is another high level person involved in PNGScape who could, in fact, be the worshipped Wantokz figure, it has never been in doubt that Anthony Smare was the initiator and owner of the forums. Whenever Smare was promoted or attained a new level in his career, an announcement always appeared on PNGScape, followed by several postings that strongly applauded Smare’s progress. In contrast, whenever any significant criticism appeared under those postings, the thread was either frozen or the criticism erased. Even today a poster on PNGScape must proceed carefully around the Smare name if they wish their posting to remain.

When the domains pngscape.net, pngscape.com and ailanscape.com were registered, Smare was already trying to assume a low profile on the internet, undoubtedly a result of the repeated attacks he received by anonymous posters. Not surprisingly he registered the two pngscape domains under a wantok in Moresby (Smare was still in Melbourne at the time), however he did originally register ailanscape.com in his name. In all cases, the same address was used in the registration of these domains: P.O. Box 1150, Port Moresby, NCD.

By the 2002 election, Smare was in Port Moresby working for the same law firm, but at the Moresby office. He later became a general manager for the Pogera Mine under Barrick Mining and following that, a director at Telikom. There was no indication that he was a common presence on PNGScape until late in October 2009 when a major posting attack by persons unhappy with PNGScape’s moderation developed. This incident will now be described as I happened to witness much of it.

The moderation at PNGScape has always been a source of occasional friction but over the past 2 or 3 years the unhappiness grew worse. The complaints separate into two camps, one group saying there was not enough moderation while the other side complains there was too much moderation. In part this response reflects the erratic nature of how postings have been moderated on PNGScape. Sometimes the site is excessively moderated while at other times PNGScape has been virtually abandoned. Also, the various “rules” for posting have been unevenly or haphazardly enforced. PNGScape states clearly that PNG laws are enforced,yet many tolerated postings on the Romance and Lovers forums at PNGScape would arguably violate standards of PNG culture, if not anti-pornography and obscenity laws. An added complication over the years is that the moderator 7milebeach occasionally promised or threatened actions that she seems to have had no intent or ability to pursue. These deceptions only seemed to further inflame some PNGSCape posters.

In late 2009, some longstanding problems came to a head. The increasing national attention focusing on corruption in PNG and greater overall activism on the internet bumped against a renewed clampdown on postings that did not fit PNGScape rules. It has always been unclear to what extent PNGScape practices true political censorship as opposed to the deletions of political postings having occurred for other reasons. The moderators inability or reluctance to transparently explain the reasons for erasing certain postings has always created more enemies than friends, true in this case as well.

From these tensions a cyber-upheaval of sorts developed in late 2009. This resulted in Brian Tobias being exposed as one of the moderators (essentially confirmed by one 7milebeach posting in response). Also, Anthony Smare was mentioned again as being the owner and main person in back of PNGScape. The main issue, however, appeared to be political censorship combined with the secrecy of PNGScape’s ownership. That a number of postings appeared during this period of 1-2 weeks on how to hide one’s identity from PNGScape (as well as get around any blocking of IPs) further suggests a mix of anger over perceptions of political censorship with fear of the identities of posters who put up sensitive allegations being discovered and published. When even those postings were quickly erased, this seemed to confirm the worst fears of some posters and a virtual cyberwar developed between unknown posters and the PNGScape moderators.

The end result was that PNGScape was shut down for several days,new moderators were recruited to police the site, and all forums were changed so that no posting could appear in public view until a moderator had approved it. These heavy handed rules were partially relaxed in early 2010, with the most popular forums now being moderated after posting, as was true before.

In general the PNG cyberspace has undergone a radical change over the past year or less. Many blogs have appeared and in general, information that would have been quickly purged from the internet is now finding ways to stay put and be spread. This fits the overall trend of renewed activism in PNG, particularly against corruption and a general anger towards the government of Sir Michael Somare. To some extent,PNGScape has accommodated this change. For example, in 2003-2004 a posting that proposed revolution or assassinations in PNG would not have been allowed to stay up, yet such postings had ceased to be unusual (and usually remained up for some time) by 2008-2009.

Starting in late 2009,however, PNGScape turned against the trends around them and increased its moderation and perhaps censorship. Moderators or owner of PNGScape has recently come out stating that postings which contain unsubstantiated allegations on public figures and do not have a name attached, will not be allowed on PNGScape. Obviously their concern is liability which is an unstated admission that neither PNGScape moderators nor its owner are truly unknown to the public. The more recent addition of a banner advertisement for a new website wantura.com strengthens the association of PNGScape with Anthony Smare since Smare is the registered owner of wantura.com and signs his name in several initial news postings at that new site.

Up to now, PNGScape has stopped challenges to its dominance as the main discussion forum site for Papua New Guineans by erasing postings that advertised alternative sites. The most memorable example is the late vortexpng.com. PNGScape founders obviously forget how they had their start, by bombarding Wantoks Forum with repeated postings to draw people onto their site. This PNGScape hypocrisy occurred again in June 2010 when the new site www.niuginicafe.com was advertised on PNGScape forums. Any mention of this new web site was soon erased. It is ironic that Anthony Smare always promoted a vision of Papua New Guineans supporting each other’s efforts. Seeing the hypocrisy of PNGScape preventing other Papua New Guineans from starting the same way they did was the event most responsible for why this history of PNGScape was written.

To summarise,Anthony Smare is the principal founder of PNGScape. He once was registered as the owner of some domains associated with PNGScape and he continues to be strongly associated with the web site. Until now he has taken advantage of fading memories and the fact that hardly any Papua New Guinean treats the internet as a serious part of their life, to keep this information hidden. Putting out into the open the connection between Anthony Smare and PNGScape will not hurt the PNGScape site because the owner already shows every sign of knowing he was compromised by early slips that link him to the site. It is also clear that in becoming a near monopoly, PNGScape now abuses that power by showing no interest in explaining their actions except when put under pressure. Probably even some of the moderators have little knowledge of the history of the web site they are volunteering for. In this absence of accountability,it becomes the responsibility of PNGScape’s audience to open the shades and bring in the sunlight at PNGScape.


Port Moresby
18 June 2010


Re: PNGScape, It’s History and Ownership MORE INFO 2010-06-19 01:39:38
Anthony Smare Business Interests On the Internet


Anthony Smare is associated with the address mentioned in the article on PNGScape history several times and with several organizations or business ventures. All this information was taken off the internet in June 2010:

1: Ezy Limited
2: Kairar Enterprises
3: Expedient PNG
4: Kumul Seminars
5: Wantura.com

The address in question and being connected to www.pngscape.net is:

P.O. Box 1150
Port Moresby NCD
121
Papua New Guinea


This information is being provided not to challenge or belittle Smare’s business accomplishments. The objective is simply to show that Anthony Smare has continued to be active on the internet up to the present.



1: EZY LIMITED

Ezy Limited
Diversified business entity in papua new guinea. Property development, agricultural exports, telecommunications and various trading interests. Intending to export products from png but also to import products to trade in png.
公司名称 Ezy Limited
联系人 Mr. Anthony Smare
联系地址 P. O. Box 1150, Port Moresby, Ncd, Papua New Guinea
邮编 121
电话 675—3216067
手机
传真 675—3216067
网站


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Company Name:
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Contact :
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Street :
P. O. Box 1150
City :
Port Moresby
Province :
Ncd
Country :
Papua New Guinea
Zip :
121




2: KAIRAR ENTERPRISES


Kairar Enterprises Ltd.
A diversified PNG company with interests in many businesses.
Member Info »
Business Type: Trade
Number of Employees: 5 ~ 50
Business Scope: Agriculture & Food, Consumer Electronics, Electrical & Electronics, Transportation
Member Since: 2003
Last Sign In Date: 2003-06-18
Contact Details
Company Name: Kairar Enterprises Ltd.
Company Address: P.O.Box 1150, Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea
City/Town: Port Moresby
Province/State: NCD
Country/Region: Papua New Guinea
Zip/Postal Code: 121
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Fax Number:
Mobile:
Contact Person (Department): Mr. Anthony Kairar


Kairar Enterprises
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Kairar Enterprises
Port Moresby NCD
Papua New Guinea


Contact : Anthony Smare
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WWW.KAIRAR.COM

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Domain name: kairar.com

Registrant Contact:
Kairar
Anthony Smare ()

Fax:
P.O.Box 1150
.
Port Moresby, NCD 121
PG

Administrative Contact:
Kairar
Anthony Smare (asmare@barrick.com)
+675.3216067
Fax: +675.3216067
P.O.Box 1150
.
Port Moresby, NCD 121
PG

Technical Contact:
Kairar
Anthony Smare (asmare@barrick.com)
+675.3216067
Fax: +675.3216067
P.O.Box 1150
.
Port Moresby, NCD 121
PG

Status: Locked

Name Servers:
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Creation date: 11 Nov 2009 02:02:55
Expiration date: 11 Nov 2010 02:02:55



3: EXPEDIENT PNG


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Domain name: expedientpng.com

Registrant Contact:
Kairar
Anthony Smare ()

Fax:
P.O.Box 1150
.
Port Moresby, NCD 121
PG

Administrative Contact:
Kairar
Anthony Smare (anthonysmare@gmail.com)
+675.3216067
Fax: +675.3216067
P.O.Box 1150
.
Port Moresby, NCD 121
PG

Technical Contact:
Kairar
Anthony Smare (anthonysmare@gmail.com)
+675.3216067
Fax: +675.3216067
P.O.Box 1150
.
Port Moresby, NCD 121
PG

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4: KUMUL SEMINARS

See this following application form for Anthony Smare’s name associated with the address P,O. Box 1150, Port Moresby:

http://www.apngbc.org.au/kumul_seminars_survey.pdf



5: WANTURA.COM


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Domain name: wantura.com

Registrant Contact:
Wantura Media Limited
Anthony Smare ()

Fax:
P.O.Box 1150
.
Port Moresby, NCD 121
PG

Administrative Contact:
Wantura Media Limited
Anthony Smare (anthonysmare@gmail.com)
+675.3216067
Fax: +675.3216067
P.O.Box 1150
.
Port Moresby, NCD 121
PG

Technical Contact:
Wantura Media Limited
Anthony Smare (anthonysmare@gmail.com)
+675.3216067
Fax: +675.3216067
P.O.Box 1150
.
Port Moresby, NCD 121
PG

Status: Locked

Name Servers:
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Re: Re: PNGScape, It’s History and Ownership LAS WAN 2010-06-19 01:56:56
Note that PNGScape admin up to now have not divulged any information about the connections between wantura.com and pngscape.net. They either dismiss any questions or suggest that it is simply a business relationship where wantura paid pngscape for the banner advertisement. This is not true. Anthony Smare is in back of both sites.


Re: Re: Re: PNGScape, It’s History and Ownership David 2010-06-19 18:30:52
I have never run across a history of the PNG forums anywhere on the internet so this is very interesting and useful. However the author neglects to mention a number of regional forums (like one for WHP, one for Jiwaka, a couple for Enga, even one once for Milne Bay websurfers) that also utilised the free forum sites. I don't know if any of them still exist or are active.


INCRIMINATING POSTINGS LINKING ANTHONY SMARE TO PNGSCAPE SMARE NOGAT SEM 2010-06-30 17:33:33
ANTHONY SMARE SEEMS TO BE JUST LIKE A PNG POLITICIAN WITH EVIDENCE THAT ANY NEGATIVE INFORMATION ABOUT HIM ON THE INTERNET IS TKEN OFF ONE WAY OR THE OTHER. FREE SPEECH IS SUPPRESSED ON HIS WEB SITE PNGSCAPE.NET AND HE IS REACHING HIS CENSORSHIP FINGERS ALL OVER THE INTERNET.

HERE BELOW ARE THE SENSITIVE POSTINGS FROM WWW.VOY.COM/5575/ THAT EITHER ANTHONY SMARE OR COLEAGUES AT PNGSCAPE.NET HAVE RECENTLY TRIED TO REMOVE ALL TRACES OF FROM THE INTERNET BY HAVING THAT WEB SITE CLOSED DOWN.

OBVIOUSLY SMARE AND FRIENDS FELT THESE POSTINGS WERE VERY DAMAGING TO THEM. HOW DID THEY GET THE WEB SITE TAKEN DOWN? SOMARE IS A LAWYER PROBABLY HE THREATENED THEM.

HELP KEEP THIS INFORMATION ALIVE DON’T LET SOMARE AND FRIENDS WIN BY LETTING THIS INFORMATION DISAPPEAR. THE ONLY REASON WHY THIS INFORMATION IS AVAILABLE IS BECAUSE THEY WERE TAKEN OFF THE GOOGLE CACHE EVEN THOUGH THE WEB SITE IS NOW GONE.



Date Posted: 16:40:34 10/15/02 Tue
Author: Anonymous
Subject: Mr Anthony Smare and the PNGSCAPE administrator both using the new IP 203.62.150.50 on Wantok's Forum
In reply to: 's message, "PNGScape Rulz!!" on 16:09:30 10/01/02 Tue

On Wantok's Forum the PNGSCAPE administrator from Melbourne used to use computer IP 203.43.25.3 to post their endless PNGSCAPE advertisement but switched and are now using only the new IP 203.62.159.50 for their PNGSCAPE adverts. Most postings under this new IP are unsigned but a few on Wantok's Forum were signed by Mr Anthony Smare. Anthony Smare is a PNGan lawyer working for Allens Arthur Robinson in Melbourne. This means there is now a strong link between Mr Anthony Smare and the PNGSCAPE administrator who for some time was using the IP 203.43.25.3 also of Allens Arthur Robinson in Melbourne.

Another indication of a connection between these 2 people is that both the PNGSCAPE administrator and Anthony Smare now use the new IP 203.62.159.50 to post on Wantok's Forum. However in some of his postings Mr Smare has written about PNGSCAPE like he does not know who runs it. Of course now it is clear that Mr Smare does know who is involved but acting like he does not.

See Wantok's Forum and archives for the evidence for these statements. Anyone can figure it out.

While advertising PNGSCAPE repeatedly on the forums as well as putting down PNG students at various times, the PNGSCAPE administrator has shown an incredible concern to not show their identity. Something is going on here to make hiding very important does anyone know what the reason is? This is becoming an interesting oddity. It is the oddity of the Melbourne Mystery person.




Date Posted: 11:13:13 10/25/02 Fri
Author: Anonymous
Subject: Here is the evidence that A Smare and Melbourne Mystery Person/PNGSCAPE adminstrator post from same IP
In reply to: 's message, "get a life..." on 23:13:19 10/19/02 Sat

Go to the following URL to see the link to the A Smare posting that uses the new IP (adsl-50.ains.net.au (203.62.159.50).

http://www.alltheweb.com/search?cat=web&cs=utf-8&l=any&q=%2B203.62.159.50+%2BPNGSCAPE+%2BAnthony+%2Bniugini+%2BWantoks

Now go to the following URL to see all the unsigned anonymous postings on Wantok's Forum that normally have been coming from this same IP used by A Smare:

http://www.alltheweb.com/search?cat=web&cs=utf-8&l=any&q=%2B203.62.159.50+%2BPNGSCAPE+-Anthony+%2Bniugini+%2BWantoks

These postings coming from the new IP are exactly like the ones that were coming for some time from IP 203.43.25.3 Go to the following URL to see those kinds of postings:

http://www.alltheweb.com/search?cat=web&cs=utf-8&l=any&q=%2B203.43.25.3+%2BPNGSCAPE+%2Bniugini+%2BWantoks

Obviously there is a very close connection between A Smare and whoever is using those 2 IPs to constantly promote PNGSCAPE. No one but the PNGSCAPE administrator would be putting up these constant postings promoting PNGSCAPE naturally. On one of those 203.43.25.3 postings, that person will actually tell someone else that they saw who was actually visiting PNGSCAPE. Only an administrator would have such an ability, which ties 203.43.25.3 poster to being the actual administrator of PNGSCAPE. So far Mr A Smare is the only Papua New Guinean who can be tied with certainty to 203.43.25.3 since this is the computer used only by Allens Arthur Robinson staff in Melbourne. Hope now you are clear why we say there is a very strong connection between A Smare and PNGSCAPE. What is mysterious and odd is that so many of these postings are anonymous which is opposite of what A Smare promotes in his public life. This is like night and day behaviour and so odd. That is why it is becoming a very interesting puzzle.



Date Posted: 10:04:58 10/25/02 Fri
Author: Anonymous
Subject: PNGSCAPE administered by person posting from IP 203.43.25.3 which cannot function as a proxy but which is a Melbourne computer at Allens Arthur Robinson lawyers- place where A Smare works
In reply to: 's message, "get a life..." on 23:13:19 10/19/02 Sat

If it is not A Smare who is administering PNGSCAPE it is another Papua New Guinean who works at Allens Arthur Robinson in Melbourne. We know this because Allens Arthur Robinson employees in Melbourne are using 203.43.25.3 to this day to surf and post on the internet. Postings on Wantoks Forum under 203.43.25.3 include many that advertise PNGSCAPE and at least 1 posting in which the poster (203.43.25.3 IP) states that they can see who has been visiting PNGSCAPE. A. Smare has psoted on Wantoks Forum promoting PNGSCAPE using the exact same new IP as the mystery Melbourne Allens Arthur Robinson person who does not sign their name but also continues to promote PNGSCAPE on Wantoks Forum however using the new IP. The evidence is airtight that the PNGSCAPE administrator works at Allens Arthur Robinson in Melbourne. The mystery is why they are so interested in hiding their identity. Especially since we kow that A. Smare promotes a most different personality in public view.

We have thoroughly checked out IP 203.43.25.3 to see if it can be used as a proxy. Neither are there any ports open on that IP that are used by proxy computers and we are not prompted for a password or given an access denied notice as would be true if it were a closed proxy. For that reason we are certain that 203.43.25.3 is an IP that can only be used by the employees of Allens Arthur Robinson in Melbourne and no one outside that area.

Whehter the PNGSCAPE administrator is A Smare or not is not certain. What is certain is that the person who using IP 203.43.25.3 has ridiculed many other Papua New Guineans on Wantok's forum as well as has endlessly advertised PNGSCAPE is definitely an employee of Allens Arthur Robinson in Melbourne. It is also very clear that A Smare knows this person if it is not him. They are coworkers if not the same person.





Date Posted: 12:54:54 10/16/02 Wed
Author: Anonymous
Subject: hmmmmmm
In reply to: 's message, "Mr Anthony Smare and the PNGSCAPE administrator both using the new IP 203.62.150.50 on Wantok's Forum" on 16:40:34 10/15/02 Tue

Clear now why critical talk about AS was knocked out on pngscape. Only pro AS postings stay on.




Date Posted: 11:34:04 10/25/02 Fri
Author: Anonymous
Subject: It is because of the oddity of what the Melbourne Mystery Person does
In reply to: 's message, "Seriously, does anybody really care?!!" on 11:31:17 10/17/02 Thu

This person is of such interest because they have used the IP 203.43.25.3 to attack a number of Papua New Guineans on Wantok's Forum, such as making fun of others English, putting down, humiliating, and exposing the identity of others. Also they constantly promoted PNGSCAPE from their position as a mysterious hidden person.

The great secrecy this person has been trying for while using their hidden position to attack others is why this oddity has become interesting. Some people have already said they think the Melbourne Mystery person is a mixed race, or a woman, etc but So far our small team have only been able to establish that they work at Allens Arthur Robinson in Melbourne and are closely associated with one Papua New Guinean A Smare who uses the same IP and says he promotes the very opposite way of behaving than what the Melbourne Mystery Person has been doing on the internet for some months now.

A Smare knows the Melbourne Mystery Person in some way and yet does not seem to see any problem when that Melbourne Mystery Person goes out and puts down others on Wantok's Forum. All of this is against the principles of A Smare who yet protects this person's mysterious identity. Why would A Smare be friends with this kind of person, much less protecting their hidden position, that is the greatest mystery and why it is of such interest now and a truly great PNG oddity on the internet.




Date Posted: 11:24:45 10/25/02 Fri
Author: Anonymous
Subject: adsl-50.ains.net.au (203.62.159.50) used by A Smare & Melbourne Mystery Person rarely seen on the internet except for Wantok's Forum. Appeared only after 203.43.25.3 Melbourne origin was made public
In reply to: 's message, "Here is the evidence that A Smare and Melbourne Mystery Person/PNGSCAPE adminstrator post from same IP" on 11:13:13 10/25/02 Fri

The new IP (adsl-50.ains.net.au 203.62.159.50 clearly being used by A Smare and the Melbourne Mystery Person to promote PNGSCAPE on Wantok's Forum also seems to trace to Melbourne. It is an IP that does not appear very extensively on computer logs on the internet, in fact it is almost absent once you take away all the Wantok's Forum postings. Only these places appear:


http://www.alltheweb.com/search?cat=web&cs=utf-8&l=any&q=%2Badsl-50.ains.net.au+-niugini+-pngscape

http://www.alltheweb.com/search?cat=web&cs=utf-8&l=any&q=%2B203.62.159.50+-niugini+-pngscape


It appears that this IP is a private high speed connnection. It started to be used by A Smare and the Melbourne Mystery Person only after it was publicised in Aprll and May 2002 on this forum that the 203.43.25.3 mystery IP was in fact based in Melbourne. As the truth began to emerge, the poster using 203.43.25.3 switched from that IP to the new IP adsl-50.ains.net.au (203.62.159.50). As this was noticed, the mystery became even more puzzling as to why it was so important to remain hidden from view while attacking others or promoting PNGSCAPE.

You can use the search engine ww.alltheweb.com to see clearly that the Melbourne Mystery person started using the new IP in April and May 2002 right after there were postings on this forum indicating that 203.43.25.3 was a Melbourne person.





Date Posted: 21:08:01 10/18/01 Thu
Author: No name
Subject: The poor common sense of Anthony Smare

Folks let's see if this "warning" ever happens or if our Anthony was hoodwinked again this time by someone stirring up paranoia purposely.

WantoksI have a worrying story to relay to you. A workmate of a friend of mine has returned after spending a couple of weeks in London. Last week she was in London city getting off the tube (train) with a friend of hers and noticed that a man in front of her had dropped his wallet. She picked it up, found it was heavy with money, and ran after him. After a couple of minutes they caught up with him and gave it back to him. He was a man of, according to her, Arabic descent. He was extremely grateful and thanked both women profusely. They turned and left him and continued on their way. Several minutes later they were stopped by the man, he had after them and grabbed them on the shoulder. He said to them "Thank you for your help. You are very good people. Stay away from London on October 22."According to the girl, tHe police have been notified but have not found the man. For those wantoks in London and those planning to travel to London, please keep this story in mind. It may turn out to be a hoax, or it may turn out to be true. We will find out on Monday 22 October 2001. If you have any friends and wantoks in London or the UK, please pass this story on. CheersAnthony Smare


Re: INCRIMINATING POSTINGS LINKING ANTHONY SMARE TO PNGSCAPE Nogat Nem 2010-07-08 01:10:03
Here are recent postings on a similar discussion that are extracted from www.pngblogs.com. Maybe you 2 forums should consider hooking up!


paul.rainbara (10 posts) Jul 01, 2010; 07:13pm Re: Some intriguing info about people behind the scenes at pngscape coming out at www.niuginicafe.com

This is news, man... Actually Antony's surname is Somare,
not Smare...


huh? (1 post) Jul 01, 2010; 08:55pm Re: Some intriguing info about people behind the scenes at pngscape coming out at www.niuginicafe.com



You're joking, right? :-)
Smare comes from Sandaun, mixed race Hagen & Sandaun.



paul.rainbara (10 posts) Jul 01, 2010; 09:16pm Re: Some intriguing info about people behind the scenes at pngscape coming out at www.niuginicafe.com

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MUST BE A JOKE!



tez (1 post) Jul 03, 2010; 08:01am Re: Some intriguing info about people behind the scenes at pngscape coming out at www.niuginicafe.com

Anthony (Tony) Smare, a director of Telikom and a general manager of Barrick mining (Pogera). Google him on the internet. "Anthony Smare"





Mangi hailans (2 posts) Jul 08, 2010; 07:53am Re: Some intriguing info about people behind the scenes at pngscape coming out at www.niuginicafe.com


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There has been something wrong with pngscape for a long time. Can't exactly put my finger on the problem only that when people ask them even simple questions concerning the moderation those questions are ignored or replied with an answer that says nothing.

I remember about 6 months ago there were a lot of complaints on the site about the Feedback Board on pngscape. It seems that the moderators were holding back some postings and letting others go through and be seen. The only way the rest of us knew this was going on was because the people being shut out started posting on the regular boards where the toksaves were quickly removed. However they stayed long enough for some of us to see and thats when I realized that the pngscape moderators aren't being upfront.




Mangi hailans (2 posts) Jul 08, 2010; 07:58am Re: Some intriguing info about people behind the scenes at pngscape coming out at www.niuginicafe.com

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Anthony Smare is a quite powerful person, see here:

CPL gets director

THE City Pharmacy Group of Companies has appointed lawyer Anthony Smare as director to its board of directors.
Mr Smare, a lawyer by profession is the general manager for corporate and legal Barrick (PNG) Limited.
He boasts current directorships with other major corporate entities such as PNG Minerals Resources Authority, Nationwide Micro Bank, Telikom PNG and Barrick Gold PNG Entities. Mr Smare is also chairman of mobile phone company bemobile.
He has enjoyed various professional achievements since 1998 and in addition to his outstanding expert career Mr Smare is also a member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.
Mr Smare expertise lie in the field of corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, corporate business development and has vast hands on experience as a company director in the specialized fields in mining, telecommunications, banking, media and insurance.


I was amazed to read the postings here of his internet involvement. It seems like he has a secret life as well as a public one! I just wonder why he is so secret on the internet and so public in other aspects of his life.




Shelf Kampani (2 posts) Jul 08, 2010; 10:55am Smare or Somare what's the bloody difference anyway

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PNGScape has always allowed criticism of itself and Tony Smare only when that criticism is mild or idiotic. Any criticism that hits at the guts of either the place or the person has never been allowed on Scape, such postings are erased faster than you can blink an eye.

I fail to see any difference between that "free speech with limitations" policy of Smare on the internet and M Somare's own permission of free speech so long as it's ineffective. Somare has no problem with vicious derogatory comments about him in the letters to the newspaper because he knows they'll have no effect. But let someone of importance or a reporter ask a question or make a criticism that bites or is likely to have impact and Somare jumps all over them, even slapping them in the face if the mood suits him.

Smare and Somare, it's all the same when it comes to tolerating criticism of themselves. I wonder if Tony Smare runs Telikom board meetings in the same dictatorial fashion that he has always managed PNGScape?




Shelf Kampani (2 posts) Jul 08, 2010; 10:56am Smare or Somare what's the bloody difference anyway

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PNGScape has always allowed criticism of itself and Tony Smare only when that criticism is mild or idiotic. Any criticism that hits at the guts of either the place or the person has never been allowed on Scape, such postings are erased faster than you can blink an eye.

I fail to see any difference between that "free speech with limitations" policy of Smare on the internet and M Somare's own permission of free speech so long as it's ineffective. Somare has no problem with vicious derogatory comments about him in the letters to the newspaper because he knows they'll have no effect. But let someone of importance or a reporter ask a question or make a criticism that bites or is likely to have impact and Somare jumps all over them, even slapping them in the face if the mood suits him.

Smare and Somare, it's all the same when it comes to tolerating criticism of themselves. I wonder if Tony Smare runs Telikom board meetings in the same dictatorial fashion that he has always managed PNGScape?

Now that I think about it, Smare is a lawyer so we'd all better watch out. He seems to have managed to remove postings elsewhere on the internet that might tarnish his shiny reputation. I can't believe he'll let these postings stand, eh?



paul.rainbara (10 posts) Jul 08, 2010; 02:17pm Re: Some intriguing info about people behind the scenes at pngscape coming out at www.niuginicafe.com

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Nothing new.



paul.rainbara (10 posts) Jul 08, 2010; 02:21pm Re: Smare or Somare what's the bloody difference anyway

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BATA YOU RAIT OLGETA