I suppose it is true. RIP to a forum legend. I was looking over his last posts a couple hours ago and this one stood out:
Re: Golfers of atlas
I play whenever I can. Love it.
Quite true. Now that I am retired I spend most of my summer in North East PA, which has a great course for an old fart like me - flat, fairly open, very well maintained. 
His signatures at Christmas were a forum institution. RIP.
His signatures had a way of making the forum very difficult to browse in public, but that was part of his charm.
Being associated with Atlas is what makes this place hard to browse in public, not (tasteful) pictures of hot women
