As a long time investor and current critic (not cynic, as has been implied), I commend you for this lucid post. You effectively covered a range of issues many of us have had concern with over time.
While the past need not be prologue, neither should we think a change in management effectively means there is the strategic approach that has been forever absent. After all, we have seen change before. For many of us, the influence of "he who should not be named" has long been associated with the greed that we believe characterized the actions of the company for all too long. With the website a non-existent source of information, this board has been the only common means of discussion for we small shareholders. Unfortunately, it has been infiltrated by those seeking to have us believe unsupported and surrealistic "facts". So, it is with a great deal of satisfaction that we see your interaction and a clear and substantial step toward the transparency we have longed for and that offers us a reason to believe our investments have hope.
While I would not expect you to be a regular poster, it remains that your "guest posting" from time to time will bolster our belief that this is, in fact, moving in a positive direction. Explanations are well received when backed by logic and a viewpoint such as yours. So, even when you may think an update on the website is good enough, please recognize that we still have "scar tissue" from being burned in the past. On this board, a voice such as yours offers a clear X to the website Y, and allows us to better see the direction being taken.
I thank you and look forward to further updates, as the facts and the situation allow.
