I have made only one previous post in this thread and that was to the effect that if Mrs Route has really gone (and preferably into therapy) I'd be immensely relieved.

I only looked at the thread after someone drew my attention to the breathtakingly cretinous piece of bilge signed 'Sam's Lizzie' and decided to ignore it, assuming that it would be universally regarded with mass shaking of heads.

George remarks that he knows and likes various people on this thread and I believe that includes me. He is aware that the two things I am most likely to kick off about are musical ignorance and threats to artists' intellectual property.

I have now read the whole thread which unfolds as the most appalling display yet of Mrs Route's failure to grasp, as a result of complete self-absorption and lack of self-awareness, any notion whatsover of musical history, sources or attribution, nor indeed, of how to behave as a human being or act ethically.

She makes wholly ridiculous and wildly erroneous assumptions about Celtic music, the early English collectors and everyone around who knows just a bit more than she does (not hard).

With immense patience, several people have attempted to explain simply, without a trace of ridicule, how her massively offbeam assertions are just plain wrong, as in another thread the same was attempted to counter her wildly dangerous educational theories. Of course Dave reiterates that he won't withdraw a word; he knows what he's talking about and he's right.

I despair of unbalanced postings from those such as the imposter Devil's Advocate, and indeed, of George, who I can only assume has failed to read the thread or else has taken way too much ouzo. Nobody's been 'nasty' to Mrs Route but have instead deconstructed her deranged ramblings and tried to point her towards some semblance of sanity. No use. While she's out there searching in paranoid fashion for the non-existent 'folk police' she's likely to be nabbed by the 'web police'. Now, they do exist . . .