david, don't worry about ILTB. He has made an artform of "terrorising" various forums with his ill-informed mantras, misinformation, personal attacks and arrogance.
IIRC, he works in the army. He's been caught out once or twice using his army address on other lists. It may account for his style (or lack of it -- and that is no relfection on other members of the armed forces).
My personal gripe with him is that he cannot accept that people who are trained cyclists (as in commuting, ordinary, utility riding as opposed to racing) are better than those who aren't trained, or are better faster compared with non-trained cyclists who build up their experience alone. His continued denigration of those who develop and deliver courses is annoying because it is based on his own ignorance, not fact.
He can be amusing, in his own way, a bit like the court jester -- laughable but progressively irritating. His "debating" style used to be OK, but he couldn't really match the elegance of others like John Forrester on various lists. His debating style has slipped somewhat, and now he relies more on personal attack. I find it remarkable that some of those attacks, as on the thread about work colleagues discussing weight, are the very things people think of him.
One thing that hasn't changed is that he refutes scientific and experiential argument without presenting a shred of alternative data to substantiate his own arguments. And that, ladies and gentlemen, is where ILTB lacks credibility.