well surely all we are talking about is a need for a little restraint and mutual respect for each other. Perhaps if we ratcheted the down the rhetoric about how bloody wonderful, unique, and pre-emptive of all other claims of authenticity our view of folk music is - it might be a start

At sessions and indeed folk clubs generally, I think theres a sort of natural control system at work - when the obsessives take over - everyone else buggers off.....