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It would be easier to join MI6 than joining Mudcat

28 Nov 18 - 06:52 PM (#3963800)
Subject: Folklore: It would be easier to join MI6 than this
From: GUEST,Michael Donnelly

I have tried three times to join this forum tonight and it simply is impossible.


    E-mail address erased from this message after I sent email. I hadn't noticed his email address in this message at first.
    -Joe Offer-


28 Nov 18 - 07:19 PM (#3963805)
Subject: RE: Folklore: It would be easier to join MI6 than this
From: GUEST,.gargoyle

You truly do not want to mention the UK SS....

Within any international thread...

Not all the world...is as open and free as you.
Serious, life changing effects can follow "a slip of the lip."
A British academic who was accused of spying for the UK ... researching interviews recordings in Dubai to conduct research has been sentenced to life in jail.


28 Nov 18 - 07:34 PM (#3963809)
Subject: RE: Folklore: It would be easier to join MI6 than this
From: GUEST,.gargoyle

Sorry, I did not post the link above:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/11/21/british-academic-matthew-hedges-sentenced-life-prison-uae-court/

Sincerely,
Gargotle

loose lips sink more than ships


28 Nov 18 - 08:11 PM (#3963814)
Subject: RE: Folklore: It would be easier to join MI6 than this
From: Stilly River Sage

Did you email joe@mudcat.org? He'll set you up.


29 Nov 18 - 12:05 AM (#3963824)
Subject: RE: It would be easier to join MI6 than joining Mudcat
From: Joe Offer

I haven't seen an email come through from you, Michael. As our membership page says, you join Mudcat by emailing me, joe@mudcat.org.

I'm not online constantly, but I almost always respond within a day.

-Joe Offer, Mudcat Registrar and Music Editor-



Here's our Official Mudcat Membership Blurb and Application. Copy it and paste it into your email, fill in the blanks, and send it to me at joe@mudcat.org

Here goes:

    Membership is now required to post in the non-music section at Mudcat. We still allow music posts from non-members, but of course your posts are more credible if you're a Mudcat member with a verified identity. We'd be glad to have you as a member of Mudcat if you'd like to join. Membership gives you access to a number of features, including our Personal Messages (PM) system. It also helps ensure your credibility as a poster, because people can trust that you are who you say you are. If you'd like to join, can I ask you to fill in the information below and send it back to me? I promise we'll do our best to keep your membership information confidential. Thank you very much.

    Please note that I get a lot of registration requests, and I sometimes lose track of them. If you don't get a response from me in two days, please send me a gentle reminder.

    -Joe Offer, Music Editor, The Mudcat Cafe-
    joe@mudcat.org
    I'm in Northern California, but Mudcat Central is in Pennsylvania


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    This is a name that other Mudcat users will know you by.
    If the name is already taken, I may have to change it.

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29 Nov 18 - 05:04 AM (#3963848)
Subject: RE: It would be easier to join MI6 than joining Mudcat
From: Big Al Whittle

Special Agent: Big Al Whittle
Licenced to kill folk songs
Favourite Weapon: an Epiphone Sheraton

Your assignment (should you agree to accept it) is to perform a heavy metal medley of Roger Whittakers greatest hits.


29 Nov 18 - 10:52 AM (#3963891)
Subject: RE: It would be easier to join MI6 than joining Mudcat
From: John J

Ha-ha...Brilliant! :-)


29 Nov 18 - 10:59 AM (#3963892)
Subject: RE: It would be easier to join MI6 than joining Mudcat
From: keberoxu

You rock, Big Al!


29 Nov 18 - 12:59 PM (#3963904)
Subject: RE: It would be easier to join MI6 than joining Mudcat
From: GUEST,Sol

Re. Gargoyle's comments.
My mate emailed me to say he thought the Secret Service was hacking into his internet connection. They immediately sent him an email denying it. ;-)


29 Nov 18 - 03:25 PM (#3963919)
Subject: RE: It would be easier to join MI6 than joining Mudcat
From: JHW

The M42 is pretty bad to join too and indeed the M25


29 Nov 18 - 05:44 PM (#3963934)
Subject: RE: It would be easier to join MI6 than joining Mudcat
From: Jeri

When I saw this, I wondered if it was one of those test messages spambots send, and the lack of reply or action by the guy makes me think it was. It's pretty obvious how to join.

Probably the post, if not the whole thread, should be deleted.


30 Nov 18 - 11:17 AM (#3964026)
Subject: RE: It would be easier to join MI6 than joining Mudcat
From: keberoxu

who's in the way?


30 Nov 18 - 11:32 AM (#3964028)
Subject: RE: It would be easier to join MI6 than joining Mudcat
From: leeneia

He sounds British because of the reference to M16. His post came at 6:52 PM Mudcat time, which means he was typing at 11:52 at night his time. Maybe he was just too tired. Or something.


30 Nov 18 - 11:46 AM (#3964032)
Subject: RE: It would be easier to join MI6 than joining Mudcat
From: Bonnie Shaljean

Let's leave this thread in place. I love some of the comments. Anyway, spambots don't usually give their email addresses. Why not allow Michael the benefit of the doubt and hope he comes back to introduce himself? Maybe we scared him off!

His email makes me think northern Ireland - initials + Derry at hotmail. Plausible enough to me.

Michael, ya still there? Hello from the opposite coast (Cork).


30 Nov 18 - 11:54 AM (#3964035)
Subject: RE: It would be easier to join MI6 than joining Mudcat
From: Bonnie Shaljean

PS: I had awful problems joining too - though that was so long ago that the internet was still a baby. (Unless somebody was trying to tell me something...)


30 Nov 18 - 03:34 PM (#3964062)
Subject: RE: It would be easier to join MI6 than joining Mudcat
From: The Sandman

Ithere a motorway called the m16
The M16 motorway was the designation planned in the late 1960s and early 1970s for use on Ringway 3, a new motorway planned as part of the London Ringways Plan to run a circular route around London.[1]

Construction of the first section of the M16 began in 1973 between South Mimms and Potters Bar in Hertfordshire and opened in September 1975 with the temporary general purpose road designation A1178. During construction of the first section of the motorway, the majority of the Ringways plan was cancelled and, in 1975 the plans for Ringway 3 were modified to combine it with parts of another motorway, Ringway 4, the outermost Ringway.[1]

The M16 designation was dropped and the combined motorway was given the designation M25 which had originally been intended for the southern and western part of Ringway 4.The section of Ringway 3 west of South Mimms anti-clockwise around London to Swanley in Kent was cancelled and the section clockwise from Potters Bar to the Dartford Tunnel was constructed between 1979 and 1982. The section of Ringway 3 south of the river between Dartford and Swanley was constructed between 1974 and 1977.

The South Mimms junction was originally intended to be the end of a short spur connecting the A1 to the M16. The main alignment of the M16 would have continued south-west of the junction towards Radlett and Bushey. Evidence of this unbuilt alignment remains in the wide gap between the carriageways to the east of the South Mimms junction which would have been the point at which the spur would have separated from the continuing carriageway.


30 Nov 18 - 10:12 PM (#3964095)
Subject: RE: It would be easier to join MI6 than joining Mudcat
From: EBarnacle

Ya, there used to be a couple of rotaries like that in Rhode Island until they completed I95.


01 Dec 18 - 04:56 AM (#3964121)
Subject: RE: It would be easier to join MI6 than joining Mudcat
From: GUEST

It's easier to leave, if it helps.

Just call out and challenge bigotry and hatred in the BS section. Your account will be duly deleted.....


01 Dec 18 - 06:31 AM (#3964138)
Subject: RE: It would be easier to join MI6 than joining Mudcat
From: Big Al Whittle

Ah! the romance of the modern transport system...meets the men in black!
That's how I came to write the classic
Six days on the KGB...


01 Dec 18 - 06:41 AM (#3964140)
Subject: RE: It would be easier to join MI6 than joining Mudcat
From: GUEST

@Sandman
Did you mean to post that on Mudcat or SABRE?


01 Dec 18 - 06:42 AM (#3964141)
Subject: RE: It would be easier to join MI6 than joining Mudcat
From: GUEST,Grishka (KGB)

Al Whittle, your epiphone has been hacked ...


01 Dec 18 - 07:23 AM (#3964144)
Subject: RE: It would be easier to join MI6 than joining Mudcat
From: Bonnie Shaljean

... and your tape of the heavy-metal Roger Whittaker medley self-destructed.


02 Dec 18 - 06:36 PM (#3964364)
Subject: RE: It would be easier to join MI6 than joining Mudcat
From: Gallus Moll

Michael Donnelly seems to live in Derry city? Not sure where Jim Dixon is, or any other Mudcatters on the island of Ireland (Ireland and N Ireland) but perhaps one of them might manage to contact Michael via some other folk network and invite him to try again, read Joe's invitation to email him? It would be such a shame if Michael has just given up altogether!(and not read all the MI6 type postings!!)
C'mon all you budding spies and agents-- you must be able to find a way of seeking out this potential 'catter!!!


02 Dec 18 - 06:51 PM (#3964369)
Subject: RE: It would be easier to join MI6 than joining Mudcat
From: Jeri

If you read Joe's brown writing in the initial post ("E-mail address erased from this message after I sent email") he DID email him.


03 Dec 18 - 01:32 PM (#3964531)
Subject: RE: It would be easier to join MI6 than joining Mudcat
From: keberoxu

a Hotmail address if memory serves -- no, I didn't copy it down or anything like that,
I just remember looking long and hard at the e-mail address
before it was erased from the original post.

Why not accept the opening post at face value?


04 Dec 18 - 10:36 AM (#3964708)
Subject: RE: It would be easier to join MI6 than joining Mudcat
From: FreddyHeadey

Sandman
Can you get a song out of that??
;)


04 Dec 18 - 12:19 PM (#3964738)
Subject: RE: It would be easier to join MI6 than joining Mudcat
From: David Carter (UK)

Thing though, is you can leave Mudcat. People who go rogue in MI6 mysteriously manage to padlock themselves in their own holdall.


04 Dec 18 - 12:34 PM (#3964739)
Subject: RE: It would be easier to join MI6 than joining Mudcat
From: Little Hawk

Shane McBride has been drinking heavily ever since he was blocked from further "guest" posting in Mudcat, and it's all YOUR fault, you bastards!

(Come to think of it, though, he was drinking heavily before that happened too...)

Well...never mind. :)


06 Dec 18 - 01:53 PM (#3965138)
Subject: RE: It would be easier to join MI6 than joining Mudcat
From: leeneia

Really, Little Hawk. As if Blind River needed any more slurs.

:)


06 Dec 18 - 02:51 PM (#3965146)
Subject: RE: It would be easier to join MI6 than joining Mudcat
From: Joe Offer

Well, I never did hear from the guy.


06 Dec 18 - 09:45 PM (#3965180)
Subject: RE: It would be easier to join MI6 than joining Mudcat
From: Rapparee

Joe, I think I'll change my name to Martin Gibson.


07 Dec 18 - 03:26 PM (#3965312)
Subject: RE: It would be easier to join MI6 than joining Mudcat
From: keberoxu

that's too bad, Joe, hoped you would hear from him.