Some were questioning. Some were accusatory. Some called my integrity into doubt. Some called this site's integrity into doubt. Some called Meade's integrity into doubt.
Lets analyze conspiracy theories a little bit.
On 13 October 1999, about one hour after posting the spec comparison, Weasner's Mighty ETX Site went offline. Over the next day and a half the site was only intermittently available. That bad entry propagated around the world to other DNS servers. I post something that someone doesn't like. That someone hacks into the ISP's DNS table and takes my site offline.