Guest,

Since I. apparently am the one who was threatened with a lawsuit, due a misunderstanding which I clarified and appologized for, perhaps it will help you out if I explain that, for my part, I have gotten to be rather fond of Brendy, and(without trying to speak for him) and have had occassion to fire off posts like that occasionally, myself--so I have my own sense of where that sort of stuff can come from--

For one reason or another, the internet is a place where people can get fairly upset, from time to time--I think it is because, on one hand, it is very easy invest a lot of time and emotion in writing something (in this way really putting yourself on the line and exposing a vulnerability) and on the other hand it is also very easy to get carried away and either overstate something or esentially carve into stone a very fleeting sentiment--

I have been poking around on the internet to one extent or another for a quite a number of years, and Mudcat has much less of this volatility than I have seen anywhere else--(I have occasionally told people that it was worthwhile to start listening to folk music just so you could join)

Please don't get too upset by the occasional disorderly conduct, it just seems to go with the medium--

Aloha,

Ted