Roger, I would once again suggest you contact Max regarding your issues here. I would also suggest you read the following paragraph and consider it is used on most other message boards and forums of Mudcat's size and larger. Highlights are mine but read this and consider that it is what we could be using here. It would simplify all matters. We are fortunate that Max has not made the decision to go this route but try to believe me when I tell you that the possibility does exist. Threads like this one are immediately removed from these forums and anything which the UNKNOWN moderators and admin people decide to remove is done so with no notice given and no questions asked.

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I belong to one such forum and the place works quite well. People are friendly and discussion is excellent. We all play by the rules and when someone doesn't, it is dealt with immediately. A thread like this one wanting to discuss policy is immediately removed.

Try to think it through and see if you can't live with the minor nitpicks which you insist on championing.

Spaw