John, I tread a tightrope with the Annexe in some ways and you have highlighted and example. If there a number of people from Mudcat who wish to talk about pets on a more regular basis than would be "acceptable" here, I can provide a "home" but I would hate to see that turned into a suggestion whereby spontanious 1 off threads can and do exist on Mudcat that the presence of such a forum in the Annexe should in anyway suggest a thread like the cat naming one is in the wrong place. The intention of the Annexe is to provide extra space for people to move in rather than to impose restrictions on anyone.

My biggest wish of course is that if Mudcat is to expand on its community aspects, that the Mudcat design is modified in such a way as community and music could be viewed as separate and optional entities for each user rather than having people treading on other's toes.

The strangest thing about that is it would make the Annexe and perhaps other community projects redundant and I would be happy if they were...

Jon