jtara - 9:24 pm on Dec 13, 2006 (gmt 0)

This story just made Slashdot (after having already been widely circulated), and the Slashdotters have not been kind.

The concensus seems to be that Deano made this up.

The smoking gun they point to is a prior post on his blog about a planned viral marketing campaign.

That and the fact that he doesn't name the person making the complaint, and so there is no way to verify it.

Tedster didn't mention a reason for his editing of the original post here. I wonder if, perchance, it contained a URL?