Knowing alex, I would've expected the PM simply to have been ignored. I met alex a couple weeks ago at IMFAR and, frankly, he talked more to me there than he ever has via PM. --Which has been okay for the most part since I'm familiar enough with old WP history and how much alex lied and backstabbed, so I don't say I trust him. But there've been a few times I could've used some of WP's help when it came to more business matters and I never got a response, so...
I wasn't about to blow a favor from alex on some random guy I don't even know. Those favors come few and far between and WP could potentially be of some help in future.