Teribus, I'm afraid you have fallen victim to the Mudcat obsession with poster's identities, even though you have played by all the Mudcat "rules" of acceptability, ie joining and using a pseudonym. Apparently you trip some trigger in Bobert, so he, in his usual passive aggressive way, decided to come after you.

Personally, I would never give my permission to this or any other site administrator to release any information about me, on principle. It is a very dangerous precedent to set, especially in the US Patriot Act era. Period.

There is no reason why anyone should allow the Mudcat lynch mob mentality (which is what Bobert is playing into) here to start witch hunts like this. People end up in court over site users' identities being exposed without their permission (and yes, I can cite the legal sources). It would be quite simple to shut Mudcat down in a NY minute, because Max doesn't have the money to defend a suit against him, or even an investigation.

So Teribus, my advice is ignore this sort of thing because it will only antagonize people to come after you.