For those of us rapidly lapping up a return to our drug of choice (the Mudcat Forum) I offer the following recovery suggestions:

THE TWELVE (SUGGESTED) STEPS OF THE MUDCAT FORUM

1.We admitted we were powerless over our addiction to the Mudcat - that our time on-line had become unmanageable.
2.Came to believe that a Max could restore us to sanity.
3.Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of folk music as we understood folk music.
4.Made a searching and fearless modal inventory of our CD's, records, tapes, and songbooks.
5.Admitted to Max, to ourselves, and to another fellow Mudcatter the exact nature of our songs.
6.Were entirely ready to have Dick remove all these lyrics of character.
7.Humbly asked Max and Dick to remove our lyrics.
8.Made a list of all Mudcatters persons we had flamed, and became willing to make amends to them all.
9.Made direct amends to all people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others (especially ourselves).
10.Continued to take personal inventory of our CD's, records, tapes and songbooks and when we were wrong about lyrics or tunes promptly admitted it.
11.Sought through prayer and meditation and good humor to improve our conscious contact with our fellow Mudcatters as we understood them praying only for knowledge of their will for us and the power to carry that out (and maybe to beat Joe or Gene to a posting, now and then).
12.Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of our connection to all of these wonderful Mudcatters, we tried to carry this message to others, and to practice this music in all our affairs.

Roger in Baltimore