Re: wtbts.org
As we know, WT uses watchtower.org as the address of their public-facing web site. However,
I think you will find that WT uses Microsoft Windows 2000 Server to run their official networks, which requires a domain name to identify itself, and, for their internal network, that is wtbts.org.
Each server on the network is therefore named <server_name>.wtbts.org. Each user's official email address is <user_name>@wtbts.org.
This is in contrast with Bethelites who have a PC in their rooms: they have to connect their modems to the phone sockets in their rooms, and arrange their own dialup Internet access, just like any other member of the public.
Therefore, if a Bethelite had Internet access from his work PC and visited a web site, their web logs would show the IP number of WT's proxy server. If that same Bethelite went up to his or her room and visited the same web site from their personal PC, their web logs would show the (usually, temporary) IP number assigned to them when they logged on to the Internet.
So, for WIS' web logs to show a visitor coming from srv1.wtbts.org, we can deduce a number of things:
- srv1 must be the name of (one of?) their proxy server(s);
- the user must have been accessing the Internet from their work PC;
- as only a very small minority of WT users have Internet access--we know how paranoid the GB is about the Internet!!--the user that visited WIS must have been senior, must have been trusted with Internet access, and must have been visiting the site in his official capacity. (The proxy server logs are regularly scanned for evidence of illicit surfing.)
This does not answer the question how regularly the 'apostate' web sites are monitored by WT. Perhaps Simon may care to check his web logs for evidence of WT visitations.
Of course, if WT wished to conceal these visits, they could easily tell those doing that job to use their personal PCs in their rooms: then the IP numbers would be virtually anonymous.
