In all honesty, I think he was trying to ping me.
assumed I did not know that one cannot successfully address a non-existent freeper ID.
The way he used the "name", removing the other person's handles, then inserting that name -- well, it's obvious what he was trying to do.
So I needled him...and his forthcoming links did go back to include that Rossi jerk (the Celani guy is scarcely different).
There was little reasoning with the guy.