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.