So your campaign to try to prove that Joe has instituted a massive policy shift is based on a false premise becuaee "now" really isn't any different then two years ago, or four years ago, or even six years ago!!!!

MMario - you are welcome to that view.

However, on reflection you may wish to change it. For would you really seriously consider that I would have been first attracted to and contributed for so long to any forum where my once fellow poster (Joe Offer) judged what he would allow me to post?

Shambles, please try to remember that this is a thread about the Licensing Act. I can't allow you to hijack threads on other subjects and use them for your campaign against "Mudcat censorship.">snip<
Joe Offer

For would you really seriously consider that I would have been first attracted to and contributed for so long to any forum where there were anonymous fellow posters imposing their judgement on their fellow posters and where the current Chief of the Mudcat Editing team has publicly declared that the only way for him to impose the peace he requires is to turn our forum into a private members only club?

The forum that I was first attracted to was tolerant and accomodating of all kind of views. This has changed to where mean-spirited public judgement of the worth of one's fellow posters seems not only now to be acceptable but to be required behaviour.