Thank you Vic for outlining all this nonsense so clearly. I have to say I've read all the above with some bemusement (and amusement!)and your post has clarified things somewhat. That people could hijack a thread so completely and rake up what is clearly a very old greivance which has nothing to do with the current opening post strikes me as being bizarre in the least. Clearly a lot of unresolved bitterness there!

Can we please calm things down, cut out all this unpleasantness and name calling etc, etc, and return to a sensible discussion?

For what its worth I have never read this or any other publication on folk music but I think the idea of some kind of internet blog or similar might be good.

But hang on, isn't that what Mudcat does???

cheers
Ged