I understand your devotion to your cause. But, I submit, you do your cause more harm than good by constantly berating those who work to provide you with a forum to spread your views. You would better spend your time choosing your battles wisely.

The reference to my cause - I assume is to the music Licensing one (I have many). Those who have worked to provide a forum for this issue have not been constantly berated by me - whatever the impression that may be given by those anaonymous few who now feel themselves qualified to sit in judgement on their fellow posters. If anything - it is has been the other way around.

Max has always had my respect and gratitude for the real and positive impact that his creation and this forum has had and continues to have on what I see a vital issue for anyone interested in any music anywhere.

Max has not interferred with any of the many contributions from many very concerned posters on this issue over many years. But that is not to say that there has not been interferance and obstructions by others. This issue (for many reasons) has caused irritations with some posters and some of our volunteers did rather pander to these irritations rather than recognise the seriousness of the situation called for a more understanding view. These irritations - to my surprise became rather personalised and directed at me. In spite of the fact I always tried to do did what I could to take on board these irritations and do what I could to address them.

I think it fair to say that the main irritation reflected that many 'US' folk did not see it as an issue that directly affected them. It is also fair to say that many 'US' folk were (and are) very supportive and made many positive contributions - dispite the fact that the issue may not have affected them directly. I and many folk remain very grateful for this.

The nit-picking was to the effect that the threads were - too many - too long - not informative - duplicated - politically inspired - personal ego-trips and many other such irritations. Some of these criticisms may well have been valid - but my view is and was that the nature of the posting largely just reflected the nature of the problems this issue presented and also the structure of the forum. The fact that you can't please all of the people - all of the time - is one that can get overlooked - when everyone is being encouraged by the example of our anonoymous volunteers - to sit in judgement on everyone else.

Joe Offer's relations with me have never recovered from this. And the role of the anonymous volunteer also changed in this period - from helper to judge and censor My openly expressed view is that the role of any volunteer fellow poster is to follow Max's lead and only facilite. To enable all posting rather than to pass judgement and obstruct it. I fear that our forum is now more shaped by the personal preferences of unknown nunber of these anonymous volunteers - than it is by the preferences of the majority of contributors.

The point of this thead is to bring attention to a imposed censorship action that I have been needlessly subject to and to request that if any change is thought to be needed to a thread title that I have originated - that the volunteer concerned contact me first and that this is adopted as general practice.