He maybe a source of (skewed headline) news, but a spammer he is too. Not sure he's elevated to your pedestal of "highly respected" status.
Got "immune" to his posts anyhow. You won't miss out on his headliners for long anyhow
YinYang,
Perhaps I shouldn't have used highly respected, but he is still an integral part of this forum and he was quite a source of information in the old forum too. Whether you like his posts or not, I read them and other interesting posts to be informed.
Members of both forums, the before the turn of the century ones like me and a few others, who are always abroad depend on the local cut and paste jobs that Makaapa provided, yes, one can decide to read them or not but I rather have the news reported with the commentaries provided, since they can be thought provoking or terribly funny.
I will not sully my computer by going to stomp or the local news portals, I know I am being selfish but someone is doing a good job already and i benefit from it.
I see that his ban lasts only 24 hours, so all will be well soon anyway.
Thanks and cheers,
MentisMortis