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Tony Sidaway wrote:
Alphax said:
Did you read the pages...
I *contributed* a considerable amount of material to them, although I do not endorse them. [...]
It is well known that he has threatened everyone who disagrees with him with legal action; it is alleged on the site mentioned above that he has caused *hundreds* of people's ISPs to cancel their accounts, based solely on the fact that he asked them to.
One of my reasons for utterly repudiating the Wollmann fan club, prior to their compilation of that site, was their propensity for wild exaggeration, not to mention their tendency to unconsciously ape Wollmann himself. Wollmann claims to have persuaded ISP's to pull many accounts, because it is his intention to intimidate--he credits me with teaching him how to do this because I once reported him for spamming and his two accounts of that time were pulled. His fan club agrees that he has been successful, partly because it enables them to explain away the few times they've had their own accounts pulled for misbehaving, and partly because it serves their interests to make their own misbehavior look less serious in its consequences than his. I was for a considerable period of time, and may well still be, one of Wollmann's prime targets--my ISP told me they had received hundreds of complaint emails from Wollmann, and he inadvertently sent a number of the early complaints to me. ISP's do not pull the accounts of people who aren't misbehaving. None of the complaints ever resulted in any official or unofficial complaint or disciplinary action against me by my ISP. One ISP that received telephone complaints from Wollmann made an unprecedented post on Usenet detailing his bogus complaints. This is typical of Wollmann and his detractors. They exaggerate flagrantly.
Even though I said "alleged", I still feel like a victim of Pierre Salinger syndrome.
"It must be true - I saw it on the Interweb!"
IHBT. IHL. DAMN.
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