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I've seen people offering "style" as a justification for spacers under a negative rise stem.
I offer no comment on the bar height, and accept your explanantion, but he could immediately lose some of those spacers by fitting a rise stem, and if he's really forced to stay in the SRAM group, a +10° Truvativ Team 3D weighs the same as the Zipp at less than a quarter of the price. If the stem is marginally less stiff than the Zipp, the loss would be more than made up by eliminating 30mm of wobbly steerer tube compared with the -8° set up (based on 100mm extension). Just flipping the Zipp stem over would eliminate 28mm of spacers.
http://alex.phred.org/stemchart/Default.aspx is a handy online calculator to help others to avoid such a faux pas in the future