Your reply had nothing to do with his post. Talking about something that happened almost 10 years ago.
You don't seem to have a problem misleading your readers here, and that's problematic for a moderator, owner, or operator of a domain forum. Here's a quote from the article I cited above: "Bidding affected approximately five percent of total SnapNames auctions since 2005, most of which occurred between 2005 and 2007."
Hmmm, 2007 seems to be the last year of admitted fraud. Today is 2014, that's a difference of 7 years according to my abacus, not "approximately 10 years" as you proffered. Whatever. Oh, you mean the fraud STARTED 10 years ago. It seems you are correct there, according to that article. And the end of the fraud 2007? Did Snapnames provide that data? Gee, I'm gullible enough to believe what Snapnames tells me about the extent of the fraud perpetrated in their tent.
And again you mis-speak when you say my reply had nothing to do with the original post. Obviously, to me, you don't seem to have a problem watching your members here entering into quicksand. Sure says a lot about you. That is also relevant here. What we don't know about you is probably also relevant here, IMHO.
Let's not pull any punches. You think me the jerk, and I think you the jerk. At least both sides of the issue are presented, some of the time.
Remember all, as far as I know, no one ever went to jail because of the Snapnames fraud. J.B. Lions doesn't seem to think that fact is relevant. I can guarantee you that if you or I stole that kind of $$$, we'd be a quarter of the way through our 20 year jail sentence by now.