Help: What About a New Mudcat Name?

Subject: RE: Help: What About a New Mudcat Name?
From: GUEST,Mary in Kentucky
Date: 14 Dec 00 - 01:48 PM

Bert, that reminds me of the damsel in distress/villain joke.

She says, "I'd do anything (to say my life)."

He says (in his best music hall villain's voice)," Anything?"

She says, "the train."

Subject: RE: Help: What About a New Mudcat Name?
From: Jim Krause
Date: 14 Dec 00 - 02:55 PM

Uh, Prause, did I start something by switching from Soddy to Jim Krause? (wondering if I should be so bold as to flatter myself with such a compliment, it is to laugh)

Hang it up and stick with Praise unless you really, really are going through some cyberidentity crisis.
Jim

Subject: RE: Help: What About a New Mudcat Name?
From: Dave (the ancient mariner)
Date: 15 Dec 00 - 07:59 AM

Praise. A Rose By Any Other Name Is Still A Rose. Nuff said? Yours, Aye. Dave

Subject: RE: Help: What About a New Mudcat Name?
From: Matt_R
Date: 15 Dec 00 - 04:05 PM

Um, did any of you read Praise's post from 13-Dec-00 - 08:38 PM ?

Subject: RE: Help: What About a New Mudcat Name?
From: Bert
Date: 15 Dec 00 - 04:13 PM

Max said nothing of the sort.

Subject: RE: Help: What About a New Mudcat Name?
From: wysiwyg
Date: 15 Dec 00 - 07:01 PM

Mudcat is a self-policing community to a great extent, but actually I think of it as a self-correcting mechanism. Over time, I guess, the peaks and valleys balance out for the SYSTEM of members, but not necessariy for each of us as INDIVIDUALS. For some of us, by the time the backlashes and pendulum swings reach a moment of stasis once again, it's just too hard to be here. For example, Max and I are in communication now, but Joe's quote of what he must have felt Max meant was just the last straw, and it was going to come eventually. Joe and I continue to correspond, as well; I decided to choose between friend and forum, in a way. We went around and around, and neither of us bailed out before we'd each had our full say. I guess it will sound patronizing but I was proud of him.

But for more reasons that I can say or count, it was a mistake to come back last week. My mistake, no one else's. (Altho it was good to get on a better footing with Kat again.) But I listened to the urgency of people who felt that they needed me to be here in some way, instead of my own seasoned and educated judgment.

I don't get that urgency, BTW. I was supposed to be the persistent proselytizer, but here I was, flooded with people telling me what to do, geel, see, think.... "for my own good." I was pretty definite that I wanted to leave it as "Nuff said," and wouldn't you expect that would kinda do it? People SAID it was just that they missed me but in between the lines, in many cases, there was another note of need. I am as available as I ever was, in e-mail.

I guess I would say, if you miss whatever you thought I contributed here, CONTRIBUTE IT. Not, good Lord, in MY name, but in your own, or in our Lord's. That's mostly where my touch came from anyway, you must realize that? If you appreciated me enough to miss me, then you understood what I was saying about life well enough to start saying it yourself, in your own way.

So you are each officially granted all the rights and privileges hereunto, if you don't already know you don't need anyone's permission to love people outrageously.


As I wrote in the PEARL OF GREAT PRICE thread, I have been to a lot of forums (fora) in the last month, and I like a few of them the same way I liked Mudcat. Maybe not exactly the same, or as much, or for the identical reasons, but it doesn't hurt to be there. In some ways, the topics and structures there fit me better than here. (What a relief to not hold back anynmore.) Wish me well, as I am finally in a calm place about this.

What I am learning about sites has let me see the Mudcat in a very new way, too. I see its strengths more clearly than ever, but I see its growing pains more clearly too, and I am writing to Joe and Max about this.

I am heartily sorry for causing confusion by having started this thread when, for a few days, I actually thought I could still be a member here. I imagine that after some time has passed, I will drop in from time to time as a guest and I will be open about who I am when I do. I may visit PalTalk one of these days if the smoke damage to my computer ever lets me get there with the Mac I'd just had delivered. And I'd love to know, in e-mail, about any gatherings I can get to. Of course I welcome any news of what people are doing, too, or thinking about.

I would ask that any of you who have posted to this thread and keep looking at would please convey for me that I am not going to need a new name, and that I am always glad to be a friend to Mudcat and Mudcatters, from e-mail or anywhere else, and please do feel free to give my e-mail address to people. You don't need to ask me first. I have good filters, if any problems come up.

And Bert, you lil devil, I need a favor. Please see to it that my membership is deleted, so that when people who don't know about this PM me for some kind of help later on, they get a message letting them know I am not getting thier message. An error message or something? So that if they see my membername on an old post and PM me, they don't think I just don't care to reply? I asked Max, and I know he is busy.

Thank you all for your encouragement and caring. Let's talk about something OTHER than Mudcat, Mudcat, and MORE Mudcat, when we *meet* again. Best thing you could do for me, and for this whole situation, OK? And pray, if that's what you do.


Shall we let Dharmabum go ahead with the wake and give me a good sendoff then?


~Susan Hinton

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Subject: RE: Help: What About a New Mudcat Name?
From: Max
Date: 15 Dec 00 - 08:34 PM

Here is an unmodified excerpt of Mudcat Radio that is absolutely everything we said that night about Brendy and Praise. Nowhere in it does anyone tell anyone to leave.