Ordinarily, Kat (and Sandy) I would agree - the 'traditional under-funding' may well be the 'norm' for the continuing, daily presence of Mudcat.

However, imagine my surprise - and shock! horror! - when I opened up the site a few days ago to see the thread title:

mudcat.org cannot afford to continue...

Max wouldn't have posted that if the 'norm' - the status quo - was running as per usual. "Desperate times call for desperate measures", I said to myself - as did many, many others in the café - and buckled down to help out. A time will come when all the effort that is currently going on may tail off... that thread title will drift down the list into oblivion... Mudcat may well be taken for granted as before as other matters engross us...

A little reminder from time to time of the safety/viability or otherwise of Mudcat seems, to me, to be no bad thing. A little spur to remind some of us - like me - to keep up the work.