"He even contacted me directly, begging me to apologize, presumably so that
he wouldn't lose face for backing off his ultimatum. (What person
using a pseudonym worries about reputation? It was very weird.)"
I will observe that 172 wasn't anonymous, unless the name that he used on
wikien-l , Abe Sokolov, was an alias.
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