It would be easier to join MI6 than joining Mudcat

Subject: Folklore: It would be easier to join MI6 than this
From: GUEST,Michael Donnelly
Date: 28 Nov 18 - 06:52 PM

I have tried three times to join this forum tonight and it simply is impossible.

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E-mail address erased from this message after I sent email. I hadn't noticed his email address in this message at first.
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: Folklore: It would be easier to join MI6 than this
From: GUEST,.gargoyle
Date: 28 Nov 18 - 07:19 PM

You truly do not want to mention the UK SS....

Within any international thread...

Not all the world...is as open and free as you.
Serious, life changing effects can follow "a slip of the lip."
A British academic who was accused of spying for the UK ... researching interviews recordings in Dubai to conduct research has been sentenced to life in jail.

Subject: RE: Folklore: It would be easier to join MI6 than this
From: GUEST,.gargoyle
Date: 28 Nov 18 - 07:34 PM

Sorry, I did not post the link above:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/11/21/british-academic-matthew-hedges-sentenced-life-prison-uae-court/

Sincerely,
Gargotle

loose lips sink more than ships

Subject: RE: Folklore: It would be easier to join MI6 than this
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 28 Nov 18 - 08:11 PM

Did you email [e-mail]? He'll set you up.

Subject: RE: It would be easier to join MI6 than joining Mudcat
From: Joe Offer
Date: 29 Nov 18 - 12:05 AM

I haven't seen an email come through from you, Michael. As our membership page says, you join Mudcat by emailing me, [e-mail].

I'm not online constantly, but I almost always respond within a day.

-Joe Offer, Mudcat Registrar and Music Editor-

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Here's our Official Mudcat Membership Blurb and Application. Copy it and paste it into your email, fill in the blanks, and send it to me at [e-mail]

Here goes:

Membership is now required to post in the non-music section at Mudcat. We still allow music posts from non-members, but of course your posts are more credible if you're a Mudcat member with a verified identity. We'd be glad to have you as a member of Mudcat if you'd like to join. Membership gives you access to a number of features, including our Personal Messages (PM) system. It also helps ensure your credibility as a poster, because people can trust that you are who you say you are. If you'd like to join, can I ask you to fill in the information below and send it back to me? I promise we'll do our best to keep your membership information confidential. Thank you very much. Please note that I get a lot of registration requests, and I sometimes lose track of them. If you don't get a response from me in two days, please send me a gentle reminder. -Joe Offer, Music Editor, The Mudcat Cafe- [e-mail] I'm in Northern California, but Mudcat Central is in Pennsylvania *First Name *Last Name *Mudcat Name (your name or a pseudonym of your choice) This is a name that other Mudcat users will know you by. If the name is already taken, I may have to change it. *Password (something simple is fine - we're not a high-security operation suitable for financial transactions) *Email *Phone (optional, but sometimes it helps if we can call you with a question) *Location (City, State/District, Country): *For the record: a little about yourself and your musical interests, in fifty words or less (so we know who you are)-we've found this to be very interesting: Is there a website you're associated with that you'd like us to know about?

Subject: RE: It would be easier to join MI6 than joining Mudcat
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 29 Nov 18 - 05:04 AM

Special Agent: Big Al Whittle
Licenced to kill folk songs
Favourite Weapon: an Epiphone Sheraton

Your assignment (should you agree to accept it) is to perform a heavy metal medley of Roger Whittakers greatest hits.

Subject: RE: It would be easier to join MI6 than joining Mudcat
From: John J
Date: 29 Nov 18 - 10:52 AM

Ha-ha...Brilliant! :-)

Subject: RE: It would be easier to join MI6 than joining Mudcat
From: keberoxu
Date: 29 Nov 18 - 10:59 AM

You rock, Big Al!

Subject: RE: It would be easier to join MI6 than joining Mudcat
From: GUEST,Sol
Date: 29 Nov 18 - 12:59 PM

Re. Gargoyle's comments.
My mate emailed me to say he thought the Secret Service was hacking into his internet connection. They immediately sent him an email denying it. ;-)

Subject: RE: It would be easier to join MI6 than joining Mudcat
From: JHW
Date: 29 Nov 18 - 03:25 PM

The M42 is pretty bad to join too and indeed the M25

Subject: RE: It would be easier to join MI6 than joining Mudcat
From: Jeri
Date: 29 Nov 18 - 05:44 PM

When I saw this, I wondered if it was one of those test messages spambots send, and the lack of reply or action by the guy makes me think it was. It's pretty obvious how to join.

Probably the post, if not the whole thread, should be deleted.

Subject: RE: It would be easier to join MI6 than joining Mudcat
From: keberoxu
Date: 30 Nov 18 - 11:17 AM

who's in the way?

Subject: RE: It would be easier to join MI6 than joining Mudcat
From: leeneia
Date: 30 Nov 18 - 11:32 AM

He sounds British because of the reference to M16. His post came at 6:52 PM Mudcat time, which means he was typing at 11:52 at night his time. Maybe he was just too tired. Or something.

Subject: RE: It would be easier to join MI6 than joining Mudcat
From: Bonnie Shaljean
Date: 30 Nov 18 - 11:46 AM

Let's leave this thread in place. I love some of the comments. Anyway, spambots don't usually give their email addresses. Why not allow Michael the benefit of the doubt and hope he comes back to introduce himself? Maybe we scared him off!

His email makes me think northern Ireland - initials + Derry at hotmail. Plausible enough to me.

Michael, ya still there? Hello from the opposite coast (Cork).

Subject: RE: It would be easier to join MI6 than joining Mudcat
From: Bonnie Shaljean
Date: 30 Nov 18 - 11:54 AM

PS: I had awful problems joining too - though that was so long ago that the internet was still a baby. (Unless somebody was trying to tell me something...)

Subject: RE: It would be easier to join MI6 than joining Mudcat
From: The Sandman
Date: 30 Nov 18 - 03:34 PM

Ithere a motorway called the m16
The M16 motorway was the designation planned in the late 1960s and early 1970s for use on Ringway 3, a new motorway planned as part of the London Ringways Plan to run a circular route around London.[1]

Construction of the first section of the M16 began in 1973 between South Mimms and Potters Bar in Hertfordshire and opened in September 1975 with the temporary general purpose road designation A1178. During construction of the first section of the motorway, the majority of the Ringways plan was cancelled and, in 1975 the plans for Ringway 3 were modified to combine it with parts of another motorway, Ringway 4, the outermost Ringway.[1]

The M16 designation was dropped and the combined motorway was given the designation M25 which had originally been intended for the southern and western part of Ringway 4.The section of Ringway 3 west of South Mimms anti-clockwise around London to Swanley in Kent was cancelled and the section clockwise from Potters Bar to the Dartford Tunnel was constructed between 1979 and 1982. The section of Ringway 3 south of the river between Dartford and Swanley was constructed between 1974 and 1977.

The South Mimms junction was originally intended to be the end of a short spur connecting the A1 to the M16. The main alignment of the M16 would have continued south-west of the junction towards Radlett and Bushey. Evidence of this unbuilt alignment remains in the wide gap between the carriageways to the east of the South Mimms junction which would have been the point at which the spur would have separated from the continuing carriageway.

Subject: RE: It would be easier to join MI6 than joining Mudcat
From: EBarnacle
Date: 30 Nov 18 - 10:12 PM

Ya, there used to be a couple of rotaries like that in Rhode Island until they completed I95.

Subject: RE: It would be easier to join MI6 than joining Mudcat
From: GUEST
Date: 01 Dec 18 - 04:56 AM

It's easier to leave, if it helps.

Just call out and challenge bigotry and hatred in the BS section. Your account will be duly deleted.....

Subject: RE: It would be easier to join MI6 than joining Mudcat
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 01 Dec 18 - 06:31 AM

Ah! the romance of the modern transport system...meets the men in black!
That's how I came to write the classic
Six days on the KGB...

Subject: RE: It would be easier to join MI6 than joining Mudcat
From: GUEST
Date: 01 Dec 18 - 06:41 AM

@Sandman
Did you mean to post that on Mudcat or SABRE?

Subject: RE: It would be easier to join MI6 than joining Mudcat
From: GUEST,Grishka (KGB)
Date: 01 Dec 18 - 06:42 AM

Al Whittle, your epiphone has been hacked ...

Subject: RE: It would be easier to join MI6 than joining Mudcat
From: Bonnie Shaljean
Date: 01 Dec 18 - 07:23 AM

... and your tape of the heavy-metal Roger Whittaker medley self-destructed.

Subject: RE: It would be easier to join MI6 than joining Mudcat
From: Gallus Moll
Date: 02 Dec 18 - 06:36 PM

Michael Donnelly seems to live in Derry city? Not sure where Jim Dixon is, or any other Mudcatters on the island of Ireland (Ireland and N Ireland) but perhaps one of them might manage to contact Michael via some other folk network and invite him to try again, read Joe's invitation to email him? It would be such a shame if Michael has just given up altogether!(and not read all the MI6 type postings!!)
C'mon all you budding spies and agents-- you must be able to find a way of seeking out this potential 'catter!!!

Subject: RE: It would be easier to join MI6 than joining Mudcat
From: Jeri
Date: 02 Dec 18 - 06:51 PM

If you read Joe's brown writing in the initial post ("E-mail address erased from this message after I sent email") he DID email him.

Subject: RE: It would be easier to join MI6 than joining Mudcat
From: keberoxu
Date: 03 Dec 18 - 01:32 PM

a Hotmail address if memory serves -- no, I didn't copy it down or anything like that,
I just remember looking long and hard at the e-mail address
before it was erased from the original post.

Why not accept the opening post at face value?

Subject: RE: It would be easier to join MI6 than joining Mudcat
From: FreddyHeadey
Date: 04 Dec 18 - 10:36 AM

Sandman
Can you get a song out of that??
;)

Subject: RE: It would be easier to join MI6 than joining Mudcat
From: David Carter (UK)
Date: 04 Dec 18 - 12:19 PM

Thing though, is you can leave Mudcat. People who go rogue in MI6 mysteriously manage to padlock themselves in their own holdall.

Subject: RE: It would be easier to join MI6 than joining Mudcat
From: Little Hawk
Date: 04 Dec 18 - 12:34 PM

Shane McBride has been drinking heavily ever since he was blocked from further "guest" posting in Mudcat, and it's all YOUR fault, you bastards!

(Come to think of it, though, he was drinking heavily before that happened too...)

Well...never mind. :)

Subject: RE: It would be easier to join MI6 than joining Mudcat
From: leeneia
Date: 06 Dec 18 - 01:53 PM

Really, Little Hawk. As if Blind River needed any more slurs.

:)

Subject: RE: It would be easier to join MI6 than joining Mudcat
From: Joe Offer
Date: 06 Dec 18 - 02:51 PM

Well, I never did hear from the guy.

Subject: RE: It would be easier to join MI6 than joining Mudcat
From: Rapparee
Date: 06 Dec 18 - 09:45 PM

Joe, I think I'll change my name to Martin Gibson.

Subject: RE: It would be easier to join MI6 than joining Mudcat
From: keberoxu
Date: 07 Dec 18 - 03:26 PM

that's too bad, Joe, hoped you would hear from him.