These birthday threads were my attempt to enable posters to be positive and honest about the LIVES of musical notables (rather than about their deaths) and for our forum to be informed how these people and their music had affected their lives.

Certainly to be more positive that OBIT threads on our forum currently are. Where anything other than uncritical praise will bring calls from other posters judging other poster's comments to be unsuitable and asking for the threads to be censored.

Subject: RE: Please Delete Spam
From: SRS
Date: 16-Sep-06 - 03:49 PM
There are several nasty posts in the Ann Richards obit thread that need to be removed, but this one in particular:
http://www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=94666&messages=40#1835808
It's a nasty mischaracterization of the politics and the woman being discussed, and has no business in an obit thread.
Thanks.
SRS

To which calls our 'moderators' seem only too glad to oblige.

I had hope that these thread would have escaped such things and avoided the sort of pedantry and the minding of other people's business, that we have seen encouraged here.

But perhaps a line can now be drawn under this and any future threads can be either read or responded to or ignored?