I was being sarcastic in that message, Shimrod - I agree with you that it's the process that is important. Yet there are many who will insist on defining "traditional" based on known authorship (or not). Me, I'm more relaxed about this. And by the way, I also believe that the folk process is not dead, but it continues working (see related thread of a couple of months ago) and in time it will produce more "folk" songs.