I've personally been getting a real charge out of all the new threads that rehash topics that were done to death years ago. I mean, it's really important to me to know what everybody else has in his/her guitar case now so I can compare it to what it was when the same thread ran some months/years ago.

It's also vitally important to me to know exactly how many Mudcatters are from particular places — especially Hull, where they apparently now have regular police patrols ensuring that everybody in the city spends at least an hour a day on the Mudcat, whether they're interested in music or not.

And, of course, knowing the first chord everybody learned is probably the only thing that's keeping me safe from anthrax.

So, all in all, I'm really pleased with the way Mudcat is going these days.....

david