When I first started lurking- long before I posted- I felt that there was a core of mudcatters who all knew each other and who sent each other private- meaning exclusionary- notes, referring to events and subjects on which I had no clue.

Soon, as I started looking forward to reading various one's postings, I realized that I was beginning to know them.

Obviously, many 'Catters do meet on occasion but the actual familiarity for most of us comes more from the revealing nature of ongoing communication than it does in meeting face to face. So how can it be a clique?

Ebbie