Ah, Amos. To know you is to love you!

For myself, I have the usual addict's denial syndrome: I could quit Mudcat any time I wanted. I just don't want to. I do feel I may have crossed some line when I'm enthusiastically quoting something from an interesting thread, or talking about a friend I've made here, and the listener asks, "Now where, again, did you hear this/meet this person?"

Particularly if they are not computer/internet connected I find these people tend to edge away from me slightly when I try to explain just how much fun, how interesting, how downright rewarding Mudcatting is. I can see "poor thing, she doesn't get out much, does she" forming in their eyes...