So, here's some of the documentation, which comes with the warning that these links take you into the vile place that is a Usenet archive, so if profanity or anything else offends you, you ought not click on these links and that by disregarding this warning and continuing you forfeit all right to complain to Yahoo and be taken seriously ... yadda, yadda, yadda ...
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Someone might say, "In what sense is this documentation - this is your
(former) sysop speaking up for you. Hardly an unbiased party, right?".
Really? Take a look at the 30 messages you can see him put on that thread in response to attacks on me, alone; and I haven't even linked to all such messages. I just got tired of hunting down the posts to do cut and paste on the urls. Imagine what writing all of those posts would be like. Would you want to do that? What would his motivation to lie have been? At the time of writing, he is a rich man with such a busy schedule as to be running seriously short on sleep. Does he need this ... fertilizer? More to the point, does he need my $25/ month this badly? The easiest thing on earth would have been for him to get rid of my account, at this point. The only motivation for his actions that would make sense in this case was that he was acting out of principle and sincerely believed me to be the aggrieved party.
Tim Skirvin gloatingly claims on his web page (on this date : late
June, 1999) that Karl Denninger made a lot of enemies in this thread. If
so, I greatly regret this and respect the Usenet crowd even less than I
would otherwise, because Karl showed real character here and if people
have forgotten how to respect that, then what can we expect out of them?
Karl didn't just refuse to let himself be strongarmed into censoring me.
If he had simply ignored this, people would have gotten tired of the
topic and eventually forgotten to connect him to it. But he did more. He
went out of his way to stick up for the reputation of his customer,
showing me more consideration than most people show their friends.
Mr. Denninger and I have had some disagreements since then and some
have turned ugly, but I have to respect him for his willingness to have
done this and wonder about the integrity of those who don't.
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