> this source here did in addition also include the header as well as the comment,
> that going by that flawed sending of the e-mail there would be at least 540 additional
> people interested in the board. Since I didn't suspect someone spreading slipped
> business secrets of A-EON to be someone who inflates such numbers (and since, as
> it did, a faked number would be instantaneously be falsified by all the other recipients
> of the e-mail), I guilelessly took that number for real.

Thanks for outlining how this incident has come to pass. Appreciated.