The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #64216 Message #1048602
Posted By: Joe Offer
05-Nov-03 - 03:33 PM
Thread Name: Collected Mudcat Letters Of...
Subject: Posts from Bruce Olson
As McGrath says, posts of registered members are easy to find - just click on their name in any message they've posted. Some of Bruce Olson's non-anonymous posts will come up if you Click here and Click here, but I'm having trouble figuring out how to make a link to Bruce's early non-anonymous posts. Since many of Bruce's posts were anonymous, it might be a little harder - but you can find a lot by using supersearch to find phrases he used frequently. He made frequent mention of his "Scarce Songs" file at his website - (click here to search). also look for the phrase "file on my website" (click). or the URL for his Website, www.erols.com/olsonw.
There are many others who have said significant things. Maybe, though, they posted things in a particular context, and they'd like their comments left in that context of the dynamics of a group discussion. I have to say, though, that it seems that Art Thieme's stories should be indexed somehow.
Still, in general I think it's not a good idea to go too deep into a "personality cult," and single out the posts of certain individuals because they're well-known, or because they've died and left us. These people gave us the gift of joining in our discussion, and maybe they'd prefer that their gifts be left within the context in which they were given. I'm sure Jerry and Sandy and Art wouldn't be taken aback by my posting links to their posts, but I purposely avoided posting links to certain others.