Brian,
I agree with you. Private communications are probably best with Dr. Bertman.
I think it is most appropriate that the owner, CEO, chief programmer of A.C. remain off the message boards. The name of this message board is Amazing Charts User Board. While he may use AC, he has a completely different role than any of us. This is really designed for us to discuss whatever we want, and to meet really nice people like yourself.
If he replied to some posts, he may feel obligated to reply to more. He probably doesn't have time to follow all of the threads.
To draw an analogy to Microsoft (most of us use M.S. based O.S.'s) Bill Gates is completely inaccessible to us. We could email him all day, and we'll never get a reply. We could post all we want, and he'll never get on a message board. Talk about being silent.
At least Jon is willing to stay in touch with the users enough to attend the ACUC, reply to emails, etc.
