I can't say I have ever regretted meeting any person, Mudcatter or no'.

Mind you, I have met people that I don't care to meet again;^)

Now, I have had a bit of a topsy turvy experience regarding Mudcatters. I joined Mudcat after having met a big bunch of them at my first Getaway. Some have since become steadfast friends. Most have not, simply because I am a steadfast introvert, a lousy conversationalist, don't talk easily on the telephone, am serious as a heart attack, and as socially awkward in 3-D as I am on Mudcat. Has much more to do with who I am than who anyone else is.

I will say that there are one or two Mudcatters that I met first in 3-D and liked well enough, but later avoided contact or conversation at 3-D encounters because I was so turned off by the personally vitriolic nature of their responses on Mudcat when their views were disagreed with.   Actually, what sealed the deal on my determined efforts to avoid them in 3-D, and for the most part on the forum, was the primitive way they projected their own on-line vitriolic personal attacks onto those who disagreed with them but who expressed that disagreement appropriately.



John, you are such a valued and esteemed member of this community, and with good reason. I wish so much that you were able to keep your personal antipathy toward Joe and the clones private, and were able to express your disagreement with editoral policies in objective terms with greater frequency, and were able to keep your personal antipathy toward Joe and the clones more private, i.e. I wish you were able to do less personal sniping about your issue on the public forum.

Gnu-zer, Good on you! From what you post it appears that you have done a good job screening those of us you might want to meet from those of us you don't. I take it, then, you are among those of us who can assert we have never regretted a 3-D meeting with a Mudcatter?