Seriously, can it be reasonable to describe something as mild as this thread as "flaming"? Surely that's a word that should be held in reserve for the heavy and nasty stuff that sometimes erupts.

(And, as has been said rather often already, but then a newcomer might have missed it, noone here (so far as I have noticed) has ever had any objection to guests as such. The vast majority of them, like Trickster Coyote, use an identifying, albeit pseudonymous or tewmporary, handle, so making communication a lot easier, and they have often contributed enormously to the qualkity of the Mudcat.)