Thinking about the online thing a bit more ... It might not quite count as rudeness, but one thing that's a feature of the Mudcat's non-BS messages is that nobody seems to have come up with a non-abrasive way of conveying the message, "That's been asked here a million times before!" And you can't blame that on politics.


Jerry Rasmussen: Finding out whether the folk commuity has changed over the years -- and assuming it has, HOW it has -- sounds like a dandy project for some writer or film maker to tackle. Me, I'm such a different person from when I heard my first Frank Warner (I was three years old in '59) that I have no objectivity.