Steve, I disagree with your severe rant regarding 'GUEST' posts.
There.. now what..?

Behind the scenes, mods depending on Hi Tech capabilities, should be able to identify IP addresses like fingerprints ?

That's mudcat admin business - not yours or mine - and for the most part they deserve our respect and cooperation.


You'e stated yet again your entrenched view on guests.
I equally believe threads like this are ruined by stalking ad hominem squabbling.

As soon as certain mudcatters post they are attacked, not for what they wrote or intended, but for what their foes blindly/intentionally misread,
or dredge up from previous skirmishes.
What kind of quality debate does that personalised confrontational behaviour encourage...???

In this thread, I am firmly 'on Jim's side' [if positions need to be staked]

But although I mostly disagree with Keith & Ake I do not automatically discount entirely what they have to say.
I read what they write, not what my righteous progressive 'convictions/prejudices' filters incline me to imagine they wrote or intended to mean.

Ake is an articulate quality thinker, despite accepted conventional wisdom that he is scary bonkers more far right than Hitler.