Regardless of how it reads in his interview (as if Peter Schneider had said it and I'd remembered it wrong as something Suzuki had said), Peter emailed me that yes Suzuki did say to him that he read ZMBM to see what his students understanding was. Have now sent Peter the whole exchange between Victor and me to see what he says. Here are my comments for today on this exchange in Remarks on ZMBM at Forty from Victor Sergeyev with DC comments,