a number of members have changed their Mudcat name...some more than once. If you do, it automatically changes all the other member posts you have made....but 'guest' posts remain....Thus, some folks who posted as guests before joining have posts under at least 2 names. (I have some from 1996-97 before there WAS membership using a different form of my name.) It make it harder to look up that way.


to reply to this:

"So tell me, are people being censored for what they say or for being guests ? People do not always have malicious intent just because they are guests....do they ? So, if ther post is a reasonable one, why censor it / Why delete it ?"

because...'guest' posting has been abused - mostly down here in the BS section. Therefore a decision (a recent one) was reached by management that all 'guest' posts below the line should be signed in a consistent way even if you do NOT sign up! Thus, the post referred to is beyond what is acceptable. It 'may' be left alone so it can be answered....but one should NOT expect that others will be--even when forgetting to sign was accidentlal. YOU TAKE YOUR CHANCES if you don't use a consistent name! And Joe & Jeff can usually tell who is guilty.

Be assured...this place has improved quite a bit since this policy was put in place. It forced a couple or three naughty posters to rethink their hobby.