because only a very few people (like me)have followed ALL this discussion for 3-4 years, and have also met Bruce and some of the people involved face-to-face (and discussed it at length), it is very difficult to cover all the ins & outs about it all......suffice it to say that Bruce will keep busy, as he says....and IF someone has real questions about his field of expertise, it won't be hard to find him....

you know, Bruce made a real effort to cope with Mudcat...for a LONG time...and as Carol showed, he has shown a real sense of humor at times...(there was one thread when Dan Mulligan was being a pain...*grin*)....

I guess if the wading through the BS got to be more than he was able to cope with, then he did the right thing by opting out...and as for saying goodbye---well, if I were gonna leave after 3000+ posts, I'd say why, too!!

Folks...there is no way to say strongly enough...we are all wired differently!!.....what seems SO simple to you, may be unfathomable to me. It IS a wonder that this place works as well as it does...and it ***IS*** a damn shame that there is not a moderated forum similar to this just for moderate to serious music/song discussion....you'd have Bruce O there.....