"It does not matter to me very much either way, but, don't any of the big DD guys here have a relationship with him to call and ask, or at the very least email?"

cantwait, I don't regard myself as a *big* DD guy but Moore did state when he first started his blog that he welcomed email messages but don't expect a reply, or words to that effect, more courteously put. In fact, I have emailed him a couple of times, once re MMP and once OT about a book he was reading, neither expecting nor receiving acknowledgement.