AK, your combative, suspicious tone DOES affect people. It affects every newbie who reads these boards, and every person who feels the tone of the arena and the UBB is a bit on the harsh side. It validates it, and fosters it.
Again, I ask, why not give this guy the benefit of the doubt? What has he done to harm AH, or you? Even if you're right, and he's an old-timer, so what? You have not given a valid response to that other than "I don't like it when folks post under false pretenses." And I point out again, that you have not even come close to proving his pretenses were false.
So what you've done is take your paranoid suspicions, castigate a person who posted some thought-provoking information to germinate discussion, and then turn this into a circus, or worse, a witch hunt where there's probably no witches anyway.
The negatives to what you're doing far outweigh any positives to the community. So, why do it?
Spitboy -SW-