"I, David xxxx, posting as "thecommentator" acknowledge that in recent
posts to the newsgroups aus.sport.motor and aus.tv I have made
statements in
relation to Tony Smith (also known as "The Kook Wrangler" that are
baseless,
untrue and which I had no reasonable (or in fact any) foundation to
make. I
acknowledge that those statements are defamatory and withdraw them
unreservedly.

I apologise unreservedly to Tony Smith and sincerely regret any affront
or
injury caused. I further apologise to the members of both newsgroups
for
inflicting my improper, baseless and defamatory posts on them.

I undertake to conduct myself appropriately in future.

 "thecommentator".