but I saw in a number of messages an attitude that since he wasn't on the UT, he couldn't possibly have qualified for the award. That's what I was objecting to.Are you able to identify a message where somebody questioned whether he qualified? I don't remember that at all. All I remember is a congratulation posted on the UT, with a UT member posting from a UT perspective. Perhaps you have some other reason to object to that particular poster.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1