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Personally, I was never trying to make the point that cheating on the test is unethical (it may be ... but that was not my point).
I was trying to say that an umpire (A) who gets his answers from the internet, instead of taking a couple of hours to look up those he doesn't know and reading peripheral rules to those questions (B), is going to be a weaker umpire.
To that note - someone who publicly lists, in an area visited freely by newer umpires, an easy way for such umpires to find the answers, thus facilitating his becoming (A) instead of (B), is the unethical one. Especially since he'd previously been summarily lambasted for merely ASKING for the answers, and knew the general opinion of those on this site.
It was unethical to post the location of these answers. It was spiteful to do so after being told it was unethical.
Are the answers available out there on the net every year? Probably. Has it been easy in the past to find such answers? Not so much. Is it easy now? Yes - thanks to said unethical and spiteful "umpire". Did the unethical and spiteful actions of said "umpire" weaken our profession. Surely so.
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