I agree with everything you said, Medievalist/AW Admin, particularly your point that there's little practical value to removing the name here now. Hell, his Wikipedia page has already been amended to reflect this, erm, occurrance (for the moment, anyway- Wikipedia being Wikipedia, and all). But, I do think there's an ethical value to removing it.
Obviously, as not everyone believes the agent behaved even more poorly than the writer, or that the inciteful nature of her actions was reckless and potentially dangerous, that is only one opinion. But it's mine and I'd like to add it.
I'd been pretty impressed that mention of this hadn't found it's way to this thread after so many days. I have seen it discussed several places elsewhere on AW, however. You won't come across any one of those discussions by searching for the writer's name, and you'll only find one post related to it by searching for the agent's. You can, however, get a pretty good feel for the AW community's response in general by <snip>. From there, you don't have to look very hard to find what I'm referring to, and those seperate, random discussions are all worded to keep the names private.
So, if we're leaving the name, I'd like to leave that.
ETA: Cross posted w/Twizzle. What a freaking shock. Hi Twiz.
ETA2: Snipping. Just came across a request to edit this from someone I feel has the right to have it honored.