I dislike being placed in an either/or split. Too many of the threads, musical and non-musical, these days have acquired an acrimonius tinge:people are posting in terms of either/or, instead of pooling knowledge. This was beginning before the false posting two nights ago. I think that the people on Mudcat can be and are more complicated than that. I can see the hurt and distrust in false posting, I can also see the humour in the way it was done here. I can see the hurt in what Gargoyle says but I can also see the humour in some of his postings. I can see the value and warmth of a lot of what katlaughing posts but I can also see paranoia and an unwillingness to compromise which leads her into unwise retaliation and lashing back. I do not condone the taking on of a false identity to sow confusion and distrust also I do not support any move to suppress humour or to make it seem that appreciating humour means that you are somehow deficient of "decent' qualities.