Keboroxu:

What a great opening post! I have felt intense pleasure, animosity, inspiration, and illumination from various posts and posters. Just a few minutes ago I was reading a very old thread where various 'catters posted favorite poems. It was a treasury of clever and sage and funny.

So I say Mudcat is what we've made it. Some elements of care, many of us 'striving to be right'.

I think it's been held together by the common love of music and travails of many being musicians. And by the communities that many of us represent. And by events.

But it's also been a constant. Mudcat must be one of the longer maintained community addresses on the Web. It's got a bit of a history.

Hence much credit for whatever it is goes to the originators, the maintainers, and the moderators.

But you asked a question and I owe you an answer a bit more specific than 'both'. I'm gonna say it's a family. We've brought not only information but also emotion to these little text windows. But it's not the same as blood family... That's where a great American poet lugubriously said...."Family- That's when you have to go there, they have to take you in!" Was that Sandburg or Frost?

(So I answered a question ultimately with a question).