Need to remember--this isn't YOUR home, nor is it up to members to set the "rules of order" That gets done by the site owners in teh faq.

Mudcat: a public discussion forum, has different rules for guests, called netiquette. Might want to check your "Miss Manners" folks.

Would I throw out a guest for behaving in a way my guests thought was "inappropriate"?

No way. In my house, a guest is a guest, and treated like royalty. Once they are gone, I have the freedom to decide whether I ask them back or not.

Noreen,

I'm stil here, because it seems the intersts of non-members aren't get much attention vis a vis the membership. Originator of the thread, as well as others, suggests the guest log-in be eliminated, anon. posting no longer be allowed, etc

Still here because I choose to use this forum differently than you. As long as Mudcat DOES have a guest log-in, as long as Mudcat faq doesn't support your (in my view) extreme positions about guest and anon. postings, I figure I've as much right to use the forum the way I choose to, as you do as you choose.

But I will admit this is starting to go downhill fast. Probably enough posting for me this year.

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