So, Jim, I think I'm going to spite you by NOT suspending or removing your membership....and by not closing the "Closed Threads" thread quite yet. I did my best to give rational responses to your charges. I hope that you will read them and consider them seriously.

I sincerely hope that you will continue to be at Mudcat to share the valuable experiences that you have had. I'm at Mudcat because I want to learn, not to prove a point or win a battle. I think you have a lot you can teach me. My only reason for doing any moderator action at Mudcat is to stop the fighting, because I just can't stand it. I'm a pacifist, and I try my hardest to keep believing that peaceful and constructive human interaction is possible, and that it should be the norm for us in the folk music community. I suppose it's hard for me to make my point of view believable to those who believe in the necessity of combat.

-Joe Offer-


P.S. Steve Shaw, I do my best to ignore what you have to say. You seem to have no purpose on earth, other than to do battle.