To be a member or a guest?

Subject: RE: To be a member or a guest?
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 15 Mar 06 - 03:04 PM

I've joined a few forums where you have to give them a "real" email address because they send you a password. Not so at Mudcat. You pick your own password. The email address you give can be totally bogus if you want. But, if you do tell then that your email address is "[e-mail]" make sure you don't ever forget your password because that's the address the response to a forgotten password query will be sent.

Subject: RE: To be a member or a guest?
From: Jeri
Date: 15 Mar 06 - 03:04 PM

You can, as a member, receive and send PMs, you can trace threads, you can get to the members' pages with profiles and photos, and you can view messages as a list of "Messages since last visit", which shows who posted what.

I've been a member since membership first existed here, and haven't ever received any spam on account of it. Whether or not you make your e-mail public is entirely up to you.

Subject: RE: To be a member or a guest?
From: Bill D
Date: 15 Mar 06 - 02:59 PM

*shrug*...I have no problems with a guest who uses a regular, identifiable name.....I do prefer the ability to PM someone, and to 'feel' that they trust US.

Suit yourself, but the advantages noted above are real if you use the forum regularly....and if you do not become one of the rare folks who become lightning rods of controversy.

Subject: RE: To be a member or a guest?
From: Charlie Baum
Date: 15 Mar 06 - 02:46 PM

I go back to near the beginning at Mudcat. In all that time, I've never received unsolicited e-mails due to Mudcat. Even the private messages I've received (a benefit of membership) are few in number, easily managed, and always germane to some topic I've posted on.

You'll get the ability to post without having to remember to add on a name after "guest," the ability to send and receive private messages, and much more control over filtering the message thread here. You'll be able to trace threads, so that you can find them a week later after they've probably dropped off the bottom of the board (or six years later, when they've certainly dropped off the bottom of the board!). Sharing information like locations or birthdays or contact info on the members pages is optional, and even there, I can say from personal experience of many years that the information hasn't been abused.

--Charlie Baum

Subject: RE: To be a member or a guest?
From: The Shambles
Date: 15 Mar 06 - 02:37 PM

I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member.
Groucho Marx

Subject: RE: To be a member or a guest?
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 15 Mar 06 - 02:35 PM

Like as with anything else in life..If you are a member you get more of a sense of belonging. What I am wondering is...why did I want to belong here?

Subject: RE: To be a member or a guest?
From: MMario
Date: 15 Mar 06 - 02:34 PM

but if it would make you feel better I am *willing* to bill you for services. Or even to bill you for nothing.

Subject: RE: To be a member or a guest?
From: wysiwyg
Date: 15 Mar 06 - 02:30 PM

... being bombarded with emails, junk and crap, and even being billed for services....

Been here since 2000. Never had any of these.

Joining lets you in on all sorts of things soe of which are described well HERE.

~Susan

Subject: RE: To be a member or a guest?
From: Scooby Doo
Date: 15 Mar 06 - 02:27 PM

Stay as a Guest.
Scooby.

Subject: RE: To be a member or a guest?
From: Peace
Date: 15 Mar 06 - 02:16 PM

Nothing....

Subject: RE: To be a member or a guest?
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 15 Mar 06 - 02:15 PM

"what will I actually achieve as a result of member status"

Nothing....

Subject: To be a member or a guest?
From: GUEST
Date: 15 Mar 06 - 02:10 PM

I have posted to this site numerous times as a "guest" but with the same "post name after" I have used Mudcat regularly for posts, lyrics and all kinds of things, but now want to join up, but joined one or two other forum type sites to my deep regret, being bombarded with emails, junk and crap, and even being billed for services.

Is Mudcat really not the scary monster that i think it's not, why not stay a guest, what will I actually achieve as a result of member status?

I leave my post, a blank guest, for fear, some may agree / disagree with statements or prior posts, which will influence your responces.

C'mon Help me make the jump.......