Roger ... You keep beating the same old dead horse. I guess, if you can't get in one way, you are bound and determined to try another way, even if you cloak it it anonymity. Yes, this thread is not all the different from the anonymous flamers or guests.

You are not going to change what the mudcat is. You are the one who insists on calling it a clique, where many of us call it a community.

How many mudcatters have you met inperson or even talked to live on the telephone. (I suppose that's better than dead on the telephone.) I have met many mudcatters and talk to, on a regular basis, many more. These are real people to me. I can hear their voices when they post, as well as, their laughs and their cries. I can vision their body language by reading their words. This is not the faceless society that it was 3 1/2 years ago ... it is real people, with real lives, real triumphs, and real anguish and many of us have bonded in a very significant way.

Everyone who has visited this community and stayed has brought, with them, something to add to the pot. Those who have left, for whatever reasons, have done so at their own will. And, BTW, some of those who have chosen to leave were never contributors on music threads. But, guess what? That, too, was okay.

So, if you want to post only music information, please feel free. But, please, stop initiating threads on cliques and anonymous "sessions." Those threads really take up more room than other non-music threads. You could try doing what some of the rest of do ... if you want information regarding music, start your own thread. And, if it should get buried, refresh it.

I truly do not mean to be disrespectful to you and hope you will decide to become a part of the communist and not the resident antagonist.

jenny