I went back and looked at my sent letters. I guess I didn't send anything to Hireshmont. It must have been some OOC gloating I was thinking of.
That's highly plausible.
I would point out though: this is a common phenomenon. i.e. the bias of how many people know something because you know it. We see this in every invasion, every Zuma action, and many non-GM related actions.
We tend to overestimate how much other people know, how included other people feel. This is especially true for highly-active players who send lots of letters to marginally less active players: because those players won't spread it as much as we do. And even then, I know for me, I consider something common knowledge if I send letters about it to, like, 6 people. Which is bologna: because while it's no longer "secret" then, it still leaves 90% of players out. The ones it leaves out the most are the ones most effected: the targets.
Som degree of that is native to the game.
But there is extra frustration when it comes simultaneously with a massive multi-cheating fiasco that enabled an exceptional degree of secrecy and coordination. Hence why Quintus has now deleted his character.
Just something I hope the Zuma GM keeps in mind right now. We could be facing losing a double-digit number of non-multi players in Terran and its successors just due to frustration with this current situation where they get no explanation on anything. Because there is a powerful bias at work here: because you know something doesn't mean other people do. And you shouldn't assume people know to ask you.