Thank you, pdq.

gnu ~~ a pm is a piece of correspondence addressed to me. As the recipient, it is up to me to decide whether to make the contents public ~~ especially when the sender had put a note here on the open forum telling me to check my pm's., so it was no sort of secret to anyone that he had sent me one. He said, here, that he sent it to avoid a public row. The row was pretty public by then, wasn't it?

~M~