Besides the disbelief that something could go as far as this incident has, I'm even more amazed after reading the letter that Peter has linked to.

What kind of person has that much vindictiveness in them that they a) bother to write this kind of letter, b) spend a significant amount of time they obviously spent to compile the data for the letter?

At a minimum, I'm very glad I use a company name here that I started with a friend of mine a number of yrs ago, and have since ended. I have no intention of changing the name to reflect my actual wereabouts.

>Jay, we've had a few disagreements in the past ;-) but I don't think you are at fault here.
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>IMHO it is *highly* significant that people clicked to what you were talking about, despite the initial vagueness of your scenario.
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>You did not cause that widespread recognition; IMHO it is something to think about for the participants in this sorry tale.
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>FWIW, now that I've seen the letters I find myself shaking my head in disbelief, and wondering whether normal UT users need to create new "Renoir" UT ids in case one of our esteemed leaders decides to finish us too.