But fleeing to save his own ass shouldn't be seen as some type of "seeing the light" moment. He's still not a very nice person. And what happens to "Ares Digital"? Does this set back sending out perks another year to eighteen months?
Surely the brilliant visionary thought leader of Trek can sit down and knock out a mailing list, now that another person that was letting him down has gotten out of the way. He could even purge the list of haters, if he needs an incentive. Everyone whose address has a unicode character in it would work.