Hap Holly, founder, guiding light and moderator of the weekly amateur radio audio feature magazine known as the RAIN (Radio Amateur Information Network) Report joins Walter Cronkite and Leo Meyerson in a critique of K1MAN and IARN. 

"Glenn Baxter's IARN was a splendid idea that ran amuck early on due to his narcissism. I was a supporter and ally of his from 1987 until 1991. In fact he did coin the name RAIN, Radio Amateur Information Network. Notice, however, that the word "rain" is simply a rearrangement of the letters iarn. That irony didn't occur to me until some time later." 

“In 1989 my wife and I were victims of a scam perpetrated by a former college friend, resulting in significant financial loss and a period of depression for me. Producing ham radio programming was one of the last things on my mind for a few weeks. When I divulged to Glenn what had happened, he was FAR more concerned that I continue pumping out my ham radio audio programming for him to air each week than about my loss ... not surprising given his history. It's his total disregard for the welfare of his closest supporters that has left him with only a relative handful of allies, including a couple of buffoons that suck up to him on the air nowadays. But then scum attracts scum.” 

“In 1991 I, like so many before and since, took a reality check, resulting in my severing all ties with Baxter after I finally woke up to smelled what was under the chicken coop and realized his International Amateur Radio nutwork so-called bulletin service was headed in the wrong direction, violating any number of laws and mores in the process. In retrospect his self-centered harangues should have been renamed "K1MAN Pontificates".” 

“For the balance of the decade I periodically requested Baxter cease airing my copyrighted RAIN Reports; he refused, claiming my creative work should be made available to anyone anywhere, this even after distribution and licensing agreements with M. Bohnhoff Inc went into affect in 1995. You can read the copyright disclaimer and distribution license agreement on http://www.rainreport.com. In fact it wasn't until Glenn took his diatribes off the air for a couple years around the turn of the century coinciding with an ultimatum from the FCC that he ceased transmitting my programming altogether.” 

“Glenn firmly believes the world revolves around him and that everything that happens in Amateur Radio politics is either caused by him or is directed toward him. That’s one of the symptoms of narcissism. He simply seems incapable of maintaining lasting loyalty other than that which he gets from his family and the lunatic fringe." 

“A final postscript: Glenn Baxter did pay the $200 for the first booth IARN and RAIN shared at the Dayton Hamvention in the late 1980s. No, I have been unable to pay him back as I, like my cohorts producing informational programming for the U.S. Amateur Service, have never made a profit (let alone broke even) from my annual expenses incurred from producing the RAIN Report. And frankly I haven't had a pot to p--- in unlike K1MAN. However, considering the grief and aggravation I went through resulting from my ill-advised association with him, I owe Glenn Baxter nothing.” 
-Hap Holly