Once again, if anyone's found a website which can measure up to the Mudcat, please give us the blue clickies or the address. I'm sure I'm not the only person who'd like to visit them. (Websites, rather than news groups or mailing lists, unless someone has found a way of making them as easy to get round as the Mudcat.)

And I'm not being in any way sarcastic. With millions on millions of websites out there, it'll be a miracle if this turns out to be the only one that has the kind of qualities that I'm looking for. A bit like looking out at the stars and thinking, this can't be the only planet with intelligent life. But if space travel was as easy as Internet communication, and nothing had turned up you'd start thinking, maybe this really is the only game in town.

And there is something a bit miraculous about the Mudcat - it's rather the way the experts used to say that by all the science they knew, there was no way that Bumble Bees could possibly fly. Buzzz.