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> I'm baaaaaaack!
>
> My computer hard drive failed early AM on Sunday, October 29, 2006,
> just a few minutes after I had sent a bunch of emails.
>
> Since then, until now, my only access to the Internet has been from the
> public library.
>
> I have now bought a new computer and have set it up. I need to thank a
> donor for providing me with the funds to buy the new computer. He did
> this to express his gratitude for the fine job he feels I have done
> during my first three months as a member of the Executive Board of The
> United States Chess Federation.
>
> Although my new computer is working and I am back on-line again, I
> still have not been able to recover the data on the hard drive that
> failed. I have about 20 gigabytes of data on that hard drive, including
> every email I have sent or received since 1997, plus several books I
> have written which I have not yet published.
>
> I will be continuing in my efforts to recover that hard drive.
>
> Meanwhile, a new version of "The Fake Sam Sloan" who files from
> ismailsloan@gmail.com has been posting dozens of nasty messages,
> pretending to be me. There have been 98 such postings by him since
> September 13, 2006, and at least 19 since my computer hard drive
> failed. I hereby inform everybody that ALL of the postings under the
> name "Sam Sloan" starting on October 29 to the present day, which is
> November 11, 2006, have not been from me, except for postings under the
> two headers:
> Windows XP Home mup.sys problem
> Vote Libertarian in New York
>
> Please note that all other postings by Sam Sloan were fake.
>
> All of the Fake Sam Sloan postings were objectionable, but the one I
> find to be most objectionable is the one entitled "The XXXXX filed for
> a divorce" .
>
> This is absolutely untrue. I am living with my wife and our child (who
> are asleep right now) in the Bronx. There is no indication that she
> plans to file for divorce. As a witness, my son Peter Aravena Sloan (a
> rated chess master) by a prior marriage has just spent two nights in my
> apartment trying to fix my hard drive. (He has gone back to his own
> home now.)
>
> The reason I find the thread "The XXXXX filed for a divorce" to be even
> more objectionable than the others is that it affects my wife and our
> child and also it seems to be more believable than the others, most of
> which are obviously fakes.
>
> I find highly objectionable a posting by a member of the USCF Executive
> Board that the postings by the Fake Sam Sloan are "amusing" and he
> wishes that they were true. I do not find these postings to be one bit
> funny and I feel that a member of the Executive Board should not make
> such a comment, especially since these postings by the Fake Sam Sloan
> are supposedly coming from a member of the Executive Board. I am
> considering filing an ethics complaint against the board member who
> stated that he was "amused" by the postings by the Fake Sam Sloan.
>
> Then, we will see if the Ethics Committee finds his statements to be
> amusing.
>
> Sam Sloan