Shambles - fellow posters are not intentionally withholding anything from you - Joe has told you all he is PERMITTED to tell you - he has told you this!!! The parameters of what Joe (or the other administrators) is permitted to tell you are not set by fellow posters or by the 'administrators' but by Max. You have been directed to contact Max if you seek further info and, presumably, he will make a decision as to whether or not to let you have that additional info. If ge doesn't, I don't know what you will do... (I actually suspect that you have already asked him, but have gotten no further and are now trying to wrangle it out of one of the administrators by sheer persistence! ...but that is just me and my cynical way of thinking...)

Now, as I truly believe that you are quite an intelligent bloke, if a little nitpicky (you wouldn't last a week living with me, believe me!!) please tell me if there is anything in the above post that you do not understand.