Stop playing a game of semantics. You know very well that the host can do what they want and they will.

No - Ron this not a game it is a discussion. That our host can do what they want is a quite different point of this discussion and one that you know that I have long ago accepted in this discussion and in this thread.

You stated that The host knows all, and you know that as well.

Our forum only know what our host knows - when he tells us what he knows in his few public statements to our forum. Everything else is assumption.

As for me posting Max's public statements in support of my views - that is not it at all. It is to show that I support his views as expressed in his public statements.

To show that I am no idealist who just makes these things up. Ron you appear to have gained your views (from your somewhat shorter tenure as a poster) and seem to feel that the 'take-it-or-F*** *** attitude that you now pecieve on our forum has emantated from our host. The view that it is our forum - is one that host has encouraged. If Max's view has changed - I have not seen a public statement from him to that effect.

If you have answered the following - I have yet to see the answer.
By the same token - why do a few posters so vocally support the continuation of 'best efforts' that the current Chief of the Mudcat Editing team has publicly stated have not been able to make Mudcat - a pleasant place to hang out and goof off or have a good discussion?

But it is a point for discussion........For it remains a mystery to me.