Jon, I hate to appear to take sides and I am not taking sides, but that was exactly what I was referring to.

The church I belong to has a telephone prayer chain. We already have an established procedure like that here at Mudcat. It just remains for people to make use of it. That way, those who want to be involved can be and those who are not into prayer for whatever reason won't be bothered by it.

What really torques my shorts is the fact that music threads have tailed off quite a bit during the last few months to be replaced by threads on just about everything else. I don't start them, but in a way I am as guilty as anyone else, because I often post to humorous threads, I do sometimes respond with a sympathetic comment for someone who starts a thread asking for that, and I have wasted an incredible amount of time and energy this week trying to reason with trolls until it sinks into my occasionally functioning brain cell that they are nothing but trolls.

There have been some monumentally great music threads on Mudcat, and I would really like to get back to that kind of thing. That, after all, is why I am here.

Let's hope. . . .

Don Firth