BS: Appreciation for what we thought we'd lost

Subject: BS: Appreciation for what we thought we'd l
From: katlaughing
Date: 12 Sep 04 - 05:41 PM

Thanks to Max for creating Mudcat and continuing with it despite the utter inanity of some. It is deeply appreciated.

A world without Mudcat...some were here on that momentous day when we thought we'd lost it forever: Mudcat is Closing Its Doors.

Subject: RE: BS: Appreciation for what we thought we'd lost
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 12 Sep 04 - 05:50 PM

Did you miss the point that the therad you linked to was a stupid April Fools joke?

"A world without Mudcat"?

There's nothing more ephemeral than the internet...

Seems to me this 'thread' should have been a PM to Max...

Subject: RE: BS: Appreciation for what we thought we'd lost
From: GUEST,brucie
Date: 12 Sep 04 - 05:53 PM

The first few posts were VERY sobering. And I don't drink.

Subject: RE: BS: Appreciation for what we thought we'd lost
From: Teresa
Date: 12 Sep 04 - 06:07 PM

Well, it was a plausible scenario at the time, given the RIAA's ... zeal. :>

Thanks, Max and everyone, for keeping this going. I've visited on and off, but always relied on the good old 'cat being there. :)

t

Subject: RE: BS: Appreciation for what we thought we'd lost
From: GUEST
Date: 12 Sep 04 - 06:18 PM

Sobering for brucie, I'm sure. Apparently he is substituting his Mudcat addiction for his meds today.

Subject: RE: BS: Appreciation for what we thought we'd lost
From: katlaughing
Date: 12 Sep 04 - 07:11 PM

CH, duh, of COURSE I knew that. I was hoping some who weren't here then might read it and gain a better understanding of how dear this place is...maybe appreciating it more will help with civility and meaningful discussion. Then, again, as you say, it's only the internet, so why care...

Subject: RE: BS: Appreciation for what we thought we'd lost
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 12 Sep 04 - 07:46 PM

There's nothing more ephemeral than the internet...

In a sense that is the reverse of the truth. Posts that people dashed off in a hurry years ago, and maybe wish they hadn't, are still there for all the world to read, websites set up by people who have forgotten all about them, or died for that matter, are still out there on the net...

It's a bit like the Recording Angel:

The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ,
Moves on; nor all your Piety nor Wit
Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line,
Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it.

.............................

Now if Max had been really mean he'd have left out the giveaway stuff about the police raid and so forth, and he'd have just said something like:

"The Mudcat has got too much for me to keep maintaining it. Even aside from the financial headaches it gives me, I'm fed up with all the griping and sniping, so I'm pulling out.

Maybe some of the people who have been doing that stuff might like to take on the responsibility, and run Mudcat II the way they think I should have been running it. Goodbye, and over to you."

I think people would have believed that, and wouldn't have blamed him. I hate to think that some time we might see something like that for real. And like kat, I'm grateful to Max for not doing it.

Subject: RE: BS: Appreciation for what we thought we'd lost
From: SINSULL
Date: 12 Sep 04 - 09:59 PM

Has anyone noticed how much better the Cat is the past few weeks????? Who will be the first to thank Max?

Subject: RE: BS: Appreciation for what we thought we'd lost
From: katlaughing
Date: 13 Sep 04 - 01:10 AM

And, Jeff?!

Subject: RE: BS: Appreciation for what we thought we'd lost
From: wysiwyg
Date: 13 Sep 04 - 12:29 PM

Kat, BIG thanks and a tip of the hat for bringing this back to the fore. Your voice here has been missed!

~Susan

Subject: RE: BS: Appreciation for what we thought we'd lost
From: Once Famous
Date: 13 Sep 04 - 04:46 PM

Another typical brown-nosing thread.

Subject: RE: BS: Appreciation for what we thought we'd lost
From: GUEST
Date: 13 Sep 04 - 05:16 PM

GUEST is a troooollllllllllererer

Subject: RE: BS: Appreciation for what we thought we'd lost
From: SINSULL
Date: 13 Sep 04 - 06:26 PM

WYSIWYG,
Missing katlaughing? You have to stay out of the communion wine. Kat hasn't been missing. She's been posting, PMing, and even telephoning for last few months.
Have you confused your kitties?
SINS

Subject: RE: BS: Appreciation for what we thought we'd lost
From: wysiwyg
Date: 13 Sep 04 - 06:30 PM

She's posted a lot less than she used to. I miss her leadership.

~Susan

Subject: RE: BS: Appreciation for what we thought we'd lost
From: SINSULL
Date: 13 Sep 04 - 06:44 PM

OOOPS My misunderstanding.

Subject: RE: BS: Appreciation for what we thought we'd lost
From: wysiwyg
Date: 13 Sep 04 - 06:48 PM

Just how it has seemed to me.

~S~