John sent it to someone he wrongly assumed to be a well known activist on the Net. He EXPECTED it to be published on the C+M site.

The response was not what he expected and it happened at an indelicate time.

Your words not mine. If these things are the facts, then you must have heard them from John himself, someone close to him or in the very least the person who published them. As for the reference to "an indelicate time", this suggests that you know something about some private dealing between John and EV.