Spirit of community is long since gone? Were you at a different Getaway than I was? Geez, if the spirit of warmth and friendship is gone, who were these people in my house?

Mudcat isn't dead or even ill. It has changed, to be sure. But there are far too many people wanting to get together, come to Getaway, making friends, for it to be dead.

Hell, even the ones that I argue heatedly with, are people I want to meet. I can travel almost anywhere in the world and have folks that I have long "known" to make friends with and stay with. If that isn't community, I don't know what is.

Don't confuse a software glitch with the death of the spirit. It is here, battered a bit, but here none the less. Don't believe it? Read the current support thread for our own Catspaw.

You naysayers are wrong. Some of you surprise and disappoint me. The troll that started this is just someone with a sick agenda.

All the best,

Mick