Well Jon, I think you are taking it all a little too seriously and personally, and I say that as your friend. No one I now feels that strongly about anything you have done, or you, although some of us do worry abvout how you are doing because you have shared, pretty openly, where your struggles lie. And the list of annoyances about Mudcat is pretty much the same as it seems it's always been. And yet it is still heavily used, with songs being added all the time and work to make it more organized progressing. Yeah, it is evolving. Maybe not the way you envisoned-- probably no the way anyone envisioned. It's more complex than we can envision accurately anyhow. But something that is evolving sure ain't dead.

I'm putting my money on Mudcat to stay the course and keep evolving. And I am content to know that anyone's single voice is not what will influence it. That leaves me free to say how I think it ought to be and then relax, knowing wise hearts will take ALL the input and do what is possible with it.

Of course whatever you will do is up to you, make no mistake that I think otherwise. But I would like to have thought that the man of integrity, who assured folks he had no desire to compete with Mudcat, is still my friend Jon.

~Susan