Originally Posted by Zacharias

The Okiebenz lists were a resurrection of the old lists that had been hosted through mbz.org, which in turn was supported by Rusty Cullens in Atlanta, who ran an online/phone order parts business (Rusty now works for WorldPac).

After some high drama between him and his partner, Hurst, details omitted here, the end result was that the domain name was sold to some large online parts mcvendor.

Ahead of the Cullens-Hurst implosion, there was nasty meltdown between Rusty and the owner of mbz.org and about the same time an employee of the latter who had difficulties went off his meds (literally) and took a baseball bat to the server farm that hosted mbz.org.

Kaleb Striplin, a pal of Rusty's who already had a site called okiebenz.com, resurrected a few of the lists as best he could.