Mudcat's openness to lyric requests and discussions of the Digital Tradition lyrics database is:

A) a hugely significant public service to the worldwide web community

and

B) the main attraction that led many of us to find this site in the first place, and subsequently join up.

If any part of this forum were to be made inaccessible to non-members, the "BS" section would be my choice. We have enough crackpots among ourselves without letting strangers add to the chaos. But the music section needs to remain open to the universe.