1. But why do you appear to think that Max is not perfectly able to read comments on the forum that he has provided on his own website?
I do not think that Max is able to read comments on his Forum. You brought these issues out publicly to the whole Forum when only Max is in a position to pass judgement.
2. Why would you assume that I have not done this also? Why would you assume that I would refer to such an exchange or make any such private exchange - public?
I do not assume anything of the kind. I don't know if you did or didn't. My point was, if you did, and he is the only one that has the authority to make a decision, why not leave it at that? You clearly have issues with what the clones are doing and in particular with Joe. It sounds like you'd like some changes made and yet, more than one poster has posted a statement from one of your posts indicating "I for one have no wish to have a say in how Max's site is run". Is that not true, or am I just "willing to accept" this as well?
There is a statement in your last post that I absolutely, 100 percent, agree with and that is this... "In the absence of anything like this - perhaps we should leave all these assumptions and also leave Max to quietly deal with the aspects that he only can address". Perhaps if this statement had been followed by everyone (including me) this thread would have been much shorter.