>>>It looks as if the oldest messages by user "Jay Johengen" are dated October 1998. I am not sure about BUTM, but perhaps you can access the list of your old messages yourself, in your user profile.
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>>Which serves to confirm Jay's (aka Renoir) theory.
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>Exactly. It's like Renoir never existed. I wonder if the word "Renoir" was purged from all messages, or was it just the poster/postee fields?

There's no way Michel would alter a the contents of a message as far as I know.