I PM'd him a few hours ago, but haven't heard anything back. I'm sure he'll return at some point, possibly in a new guise, possibly not. I have no special knowledge.

Maybe I should've sent more money?

I don't think he's posting under another name, but I could be wrong. So far, none of the new posters have his unique sentence structure or (no offence guys) his vocabulary. And he can't resist using Graemlins, remember. They're like heroin soaked in 20 year old Glenmorangie to him.