Well Jeri, that was the context I read it in and re-reading it has not altered my mind: If Peter had stopped where you stopped, I would have agreed with you. Personally I read it as Peter trying to trivailse matters (and in this case "serious music people") and be slightly outrageous in answer to comments or suggestions by others. This is the same was I read it when, in another similar thread he said:

... Some people think that the regulars are a dominating hierarchy that are stifling them. O.K. What can one propose? Propose away. Do you want certain people to only post on Tuesdays and Thursdays? I don't think so. Do you want people to always be nice? Great idea. Sure. That we set up a list of set topics, and only those can be addressed, and only in a certain style and tone? How do you ensure this, without bringing in the police?

Jon