Here we go McGrath, I'll try a new thread...

There have been within Mudcat certain repetitive type of threads such as the Healing Circle that have caused problems in the past. There may also be other areas, perhaps areas where Mudcatters share a common interest but many threads on the same interest could cause problems and would perhaps be better taking place elsewhere but Mudcatters would like to be together.

I have set up a forum at http://www.jonbanjo.com/forum/ which I have decided as an experiment to address the above to make availible to Mudcatters.

The deal is simple. If anyone wants to try a category/forum, they let me know, I set it up and that person becomes the moderator of the forum with the rights to edit posts and close threads. All I ask in terms of moderation is that where possible, the open spirit of Mudcat is adhered to although 1: I think as these areas will be specialised, it would be fair to keep them on topic 2: I am bound by an agreement which does not allow pornographic material, copyrighted or other illegal material or anything connected to hacking - any such stuff would have to be removed.

The idea is that this runs side by side with Mudcat, not in competetion with it and there are certain areas, even BS ones such as the political and religious debates we get here that I wouldn't even consider creating categories for. The idea is simply to allow extra space for more specialised areas.

One last thing. I only have 40Mb of Webspace so anything posted would have a limited life and I may be limited in what I can host. I haven't got round to considering issues like archiving yet.

Jon