Gee guys, I dunno who the special people are you are upset about -- although I concede there seem to be a certain number who agree with Joe, and a certain number who (in my view) have taken an ordinary management thing and tried to make a political issue out of it. Who are these Mudcat Royals you seem to be upset about? The clones? Is there some dirty pool going on I don't know about? Who specifically are you on about?

I think Joe is striving for the best solution for the overall scene here, and you do him a disservice. I haven't seem him remove anything from access except (as he clearly said he would) ad hominem scurrilosities and excessive pasting from other sites, which abuses the privilege of Mudcat bandwidth.

FInally, bear in mind that although the internal space of this forum is very wide open, the forum is a cyber-event, not a real-life event, and the creation of it was brought about through a lot of sweat and effort on others' parts, loaded up on machinery bought by others' sweat. As far as I can see, from that perspective, we are all guests. And it seems to me that the protocol of being a guest applies -- try to help the host keep things running and don't add any stress to his life, walk lightly on his hospitality, and do what you can to help out.

I don't see a lot of that kind of effort in play here.

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