Getting fed up with 'guests'

Subject: RE: Getting fed up with 'guests'
From: Bugsy
Date: 01 Feb 00 - 11:13 PM

NO PROB'S!

Cheers

Bugsy

Subject: RE: Getting fed up with 'guests'
From: Rick Fielding
Date: 01 Feb 00 - 11:27 PM

GOD BLESS YOU BUGSY! I was beginning to think each of my posts must have been in Latin. Thanks.

Rick

Subject: RE: Getting fed up with 'guests'
From: Bugsy
Date: 01 Feb 00 - 11:33 PM

You are more than welcome - now can we put this one to bed??????

Cheers

Bugsy

Subject: RE: Getting fed up with 'guests'
From: GUEST,of a Guest
Date: 01 Feb 00 - 11:45 PM

The disadvantage of membership is that KatLaughing can spam you with healing letters of invitation and you can recieve awful advice from Computer Idiots that believe themselves brillant, so, stay a Guest it has no obligations and no irritations

Subject: RE: Getting fed up with 'guests'
From: Rick Fielding
Date: 01 Feb 00 - 11:48 PM

Oy vay, Good night Gracie!

Rick

Subject: RE: Getting fed up with 'guests'
From: Benjamin
Date: 02 Feb 00 - 02:18 AM

Okay! I thought it costed money (which I don't have much of) to join. Now I've found out it doesn't, I've joined! No more 'guest' tag! That was a lot simpler than I thought!

Subject: RE: Getting fed up with 'guests'
From: AKS
Date: 02 Feb 00 - 03:25 AM

Your Latin, Rick, is quite comprehendable even to a non-native English speaker like me, and you made a considered point by expressing that kind wish in the first place.

And in addition: if one would not dare to put one's real name under a posting, be it of any category, the contents of it need reconsideration. Isn't this the same basic idea that lies behind the freedom of the speech? One may not insult people or tell lies about them publicly without running the risk of being sued, or have I been misled?

Well, asking stupid questions might be a different matter, but still, honest people don't need anonymity (exceptions allowed).

Arto Kalevi Sallinen, Joensuu, Finland

Subject: RE: Getting fed up with 'guests'
From: GUEST
Date: 02 Feb 00 - 03:47 AM

You also dont't have to join to contribute. I think its about $80 I've contributed over the last two and a half years and I've never joined. What's the object in joining?

Subject: RE: Getting fed up with 'guests'
From: Bugsy
Date: 02 Feb 00 - 04:05 AM

The point of joining is, as in any organisation, club, association, or union(trade or otherwise), to be a part oa a community of like minded people. ie. TO BELONG.

Cheers

Bugsy

Subject: Joining Mudcat - no obligation
From: Joe Offer
Date: 02 Feb 00 - 04:24 AM

Well, no, you "belong" if you're here and you're having a good time with the rest of us. If you sign up with the Mudcat registration, it allows Mudcat to identify you when you come here, and makes it so you can get personal messages and can add links, and are automatically identified by name on your forum messages, and you can access chat when we've had it. I think the most notable benefit is the personal messaging, which is nice. It's not the end of the world if you don't register, but there are some nice features you can access.
And it doesn't cost a thing, And Max would never sell your name and stuff to anybody. We trust Max. So can you.

I have to say, in all due respect, that Brother Fielding may have made an unfortunate choice of thread titles for this thread, even if he did a reasonably good job of explaining himself in the first message.

-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: Getting fed up with 'guests'
From: GUEST
Date: 02 Feb 00 - 05:05 AM

So what if my parents named me GUEST??? Ive learned to live with it and so should you!!!

Subject: RE: Getting fed up with 'guests'
From: Rick Fielding
Date: 02 Feb 00 - 11:01 AM

I'm afraid your right Joe. I guess I ex........ah forget it, what's the point anymore.

Rick

Subject: RE: Getting fed up with 'guests'
From: Amos
Date: 02 Feb 00 - 11:12 AM

Sometimes having to say it over and over is just noblesse oblige, Rick...the burden of the rational voice in a field of haywire motormouths. Appreciate your constancy!

A

Subject: RE: Getting fed up with 'guests'
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 02 Feb 00 - 01:44 PM

Ave atque vale.

Subject: RE: Getting fed up with 'guests'
From: GUEST,BlueJay
Date: 02 Feb 00 - 05:23 PM

Thanx kat/katlaughing, I'll join up. I don't have much time to peruse this site, but the few threads I have picked have been very stimulating and rewarding. To Rick Fielding, the original poster of this thread, I am a guest, and if you're talking Latin, I seem to have learned Latin. I'm probably too eager to divulge personal information, (what the hell, I live in a small town where everyone knows everything you do anyway), so your comments seem very reasonable. And Kat,(can I call you Kat), my three year old computer literate daughter wants to know how a cat can laugh.

Subject: RE: Getting fed up with 'guests'
From: MMario
Date: 02 Feb 00 - 05:26 PM

try seating one on somebody's head.

Subject: RE: Getting fed up with 'guests'
From: katlaughing
Date: 02 Feb 00 - 08:45 PM

Why, yer welcome, there, BlueJay. That's a very observant daughter you have there. What MMario is referring to is a picture of me which used to be on bbc's Mudcat Resources photo page (see the Quick Links). Since your daughter is interested, I will sned the picture back to bbc and ask her to put it up, again, when she has time. So, in a few days or so, check it out, okay?

Oh, and the cat which is on my head? HE laughs at me all of the time! Tell your youngun' that "Trystan" is a clown who winks at me, smiles, and stands between the kitchen and hallway, hind legs on the linoleum, front legs on the carpet, and scratches his hind legs, like a bull getting ready to charge, revving his engine, then takes off in high gear, racing through the house and making me laugh me arse off, while the other cats run in terror!

Of course, the simple answer is that katlaughing is a contraction of my first and last name: katlaf, so I added the *ing* 'cause it fits me.

Now, is that as clear as mud? Oh, and you may say you don't have a lot of time, but watch it! This place is very addictive, we've even talked about starting our own 12 step group! Hahaha!

Welcome, welcome!

katlaughing

Subject: RE: Getting fed up with 'guests'
From: Amos
Date: 03 Feb 00 - 12:07 AM

Hi. My name is Amos and ...and....(sits down suddenly).

Subject: RE: Getting fed up with 'guests'
From: GUEST,Mark
Date: 22 Aug 00 - 09:10 PM

I removed all the cookies from my machine.

This included the mudcat one.

Now I am finding it difficult to rejoin.

So, I am a guest.

I ask for lots of lyrics and chords and will continue to do so.

If you do not answer me because I wear the wrong title. So be it!

Mark

Thats

Mark (one of the twenty million other Marks on the planet)

Subject: RE: Getting fed up with 'guests'
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 22 Aug 00 - 09:48 PM

I would like to be more than a guest, but the Mudcat wants to know too much about me. My name, address, e-mail address. I an not going to put that information on the same system (the Internet) that has my banking account and can also make a record of any searches I might make on health issues, job security, etc.

Sorry!

Subject: RE: Getting fed up with 'guests'
From: flattop
Date: 22 Aug 00 - 10:49 PM

Nothing says that you have to give correct information on the internet, leeneia. If you are concerned about safety, use false information. (Mudcat needs a correct e-mail in case you lose your password but yahoo will do.) I signed up on an American newspaper site as a 35 year old Australian woman. Haven't received any sales literature targeted at that audience yet.

Subject: RE: Getting fed up with 'guests'
From: MMario
Date: 22 Aug 00 - 11:26 PM

All I had to put in was an e-mail address. and Mark, it's anonymous "guests" (most likely regulars hiding behind the "guest" label) that flame that bug us, not regular guests whether they give us a name or not

at least that's my opinion and it seems to be that of many here

Subject: RE: Getting fed up with 'guests'
From: DougR
Date: 23 Aug 00 - 01:28 AM

Yep, MMario, I think you got it right! DougR

Subject: RE: Getting fed up with 'guests'
From: Amergin
Date: 23 Aug 00 - 06:21 AM

Guest, Mark, or not so Guest, Mark, post your problem in the help forum so Max and his elves can fix it for you...

Guest, leenia, just set up an email addy at Yahoo or Hotmail or one of the other billion places across the net. You can set those up with false information....

Amergin

Subject: RE: Getting fed up with 'guests'
From: GUEST,Mark
Date: 23 Aug 00 - 09:42 AM

I'm not GUEST,Mark, I'm the one who signs this post below. (I only put in the wrong name for the sake of a demonstration and apologise to you, Mark, if you are offended)
Mark and leeneia,
most of us have nothing at all against GUESTs. Most GUESTs come in and have a name we know them by, they are polite, we are, and there's no problem. We do have problems ('problem' is a big understatement for all but the first category), however, with
- GUESTs with no name at all for that makes communication difficult if you don't know whether you are talking to one or three GUESTs. That's what Rick means in his first post here.
- GUESTs with a name like GUEST,hateme who come here for a single message like 'All Americans are stupid and what do you think about it' and never show again under this name.
- GUESTs who are obviously Mudcatters who use the anonymity of the GUEST,chooseanyname possibility to tell some Mudcatter they do dislike what they'd not dare to say using their known name.
- GUESTs using a known Mudcatter name (like I did in this post for the purpose of demonstration) to write nasty things (preferably about other known persons) which that Mudcatter whose name was pirated never would even think of. Joining as a member makes pirating a name much more difficult.
You are both so far from any of these disliked GUESTs that from my point of view you can keep that status forever and if another Mark of those 20000000 should turn up there'd still be MarkA, MarkB, MarkC, etc.
You are not meant by this thread though at the first glance it might look so. Join or not, but enjoy this place.

Wolfgang

Subject: RE: Getting fed up with 'guests'
From: Mary in Kentucky
Date: 23 Aug 00 - 11:59 AM

leeneia-I initially felt as you do about registering with Mudcat. I erroneously thought that my e-mail address would be public. As I understand it, only the Mudcat elves have access to it, and frankly I trust Max, Joe and Pene more than I trust my banker, grocer or any of my doctors! ...Now if we can just see a picture of Pene so we know he's real.

Mary

Subject: RE: Getting fed up with 'guests'
From: little john cameron
Date: 23 Aug 00 - 12:13 PM

Ah still don't know the pronunciation o Pene.Ah asked him bit he'll no tell me.Anither unexplained bit o reality. LJC

Subject: RE: Getting fed up with 'guests'
From: Pseudolus
Date: 23 Aug 00 - 12:58 PM

I understand the frustration. I have a policy, I never talk to, react to, yell at, listen to, anyone who simply posts as guest. I may read the post and if some "named" catter posts, I may react to that, but never to someone not named. You can see how much of an effect my policy has had on the guest problem (*BG*) but be that as it may, I'M happier and I enjoy logging in much more now. I know, I know, it's easier said than done but hey, it has worked for me.

Frank

Subject: RE: Getting fed up with 'guests'
From: markus Campus Bellorum (inactive)
Date: 23 Aug 00 - 09:30 PM

Thanks all.

I am a member again.