> But to not reply - to leave an author in limbo - that is not right.
> Then again, we only have 1 side of the story.

I agree with you on not being right to leave someone on limbo, and as for my side of the story I can add two more things: (1) I asked 3 times before desisting of writing the article and (2) personally I don't need an explanation on why that happened, the facts are self explanatory to me.