Like I stated in the comments, I was going to delete comments from either side that resorted to petty name-calling and flame-baiting. I removed five or six comments from both sides of the issue, but yours was easily the worst of the bunch:

“Shame on most of you, but more particularly you, Mr Baio for your crucifiction of a guy who has given so much to the blogging community without personal enrichment. Sure, he’s made a mistake, but did you tell him in your IM conversation but as soon as he left the country you were going to nail him on a cross and destroy his reputation. Surely this post can only demonstrate that the blogosphere has now truly gone mainstream, because we are now capable of climbing into the same low gutter as the mainstream media. Maybe next time your ‘hesitant’ you’ll think twice before posting.”

It added absolutely nothing to the discussion, and was insulting both to me personally and the blogosphere at large. Were you really surprised I removed it?

To answer your one question, yes. I told him in IM that I was going to write about it on my site after he responded. Here’s the relevant part of the chat transcript:

[06:43] waxpancake: FYI, after you respond, I’m probably going to link to this or write a front-page post.
[06:43] waxpancake: Just so you’re not surprised
[06:44] saxmatt02: eh, I’d just as soon take it down but they’ve already paid for the month

So there you go. Feel free to confirm this with Matt when he gets back if you don’t believe me.