Why would they need a searcher for WIN 3.1 at Mudcat? Dan was clearly pointing out that Mudcat could use one of the searchers, not you. Whether the technology exists and is relatively available for that purpose is a fact, not a matter of opinion, and you were clearly wrong about the sophistication of a technology that searches only titles. He stated that he thought that the Mudcat searcher searched the bodies of the articles when he started the thread, and conceeded that starting a new thread was the right thing to do once he knew that. I agree, I have seen some "nice" posts from Dan, in fact they were all nice until you and Bruce started up. This thread started up with this posting, "Use this thread to share links to celtic music (MIDI, files, GIFs, Etc.) Also use this thread to post files that you are looking for." Bruce , however, chose to write pages of misinformation on Celtic culture. THAT was rude. As a Tinwhistle addict it would have been nice to have been able to use this thread the way that it started out.