Most people probably know this, but maybe some don't - click on the name - any name, including GUESTs - at the top of the thread, and after a bit of a wait, up comes a clickable list of all the posts ever made by that person. And if they've changed their Mudcat name since it makes no difference - the change is retrospective.

So we are stuck with all the asinine and inane and libellous remarks we have ever thrown out, and anyone else can see them any time they want to. It's a bit frightening. That's what I meant by "the Mudcat Recording Angel". We can run, but we can't hide...

And alongside that facility for blasts from the past, here is another - Internet Wayback Machine. This lets us see what the Mudcat was like at various times going back to 1996. Flame wars, gossip, scholarship, people sharing problems - the lot. Not that different, really.