HI Neil,
Thanks for taking the time to explain. I think at the end of the day, anybody who wants to independantly verify a business especially if they use the internet and ebay can easily go onto the references from your clients.
The problem with the internet Niel, is that the internet is so easy to be anonymous, and this makes people become paranoid for good reason, anybody can say anythign without fear of people knowing who they are. This makes it easy for 1/ pranksters. 2/ Disgruntled clients. 3/ Competitors to say or write negative things.
I think most people will just read and think it is "rather strange"..but perhaps it is just innocent, if you look at troys postings on google, you will see he's a long history of posting, he is not a newcommer to the internet, and has been posting on newsnet for a numer of months.
Anyhow, it is a bit of a mystery. As you can see, the "interest" generated has been quite large, however, I feel the "interest" is due to the "mystery" part of it, the "conundrum" rather than the content, if you take my point.