I looked at the dates on the original message in rec.music.folk, my response to it there, and the first message in this thread.

I suspect if I had let Abby's comment pass, it might not have been otherwise noted. My response was a throw away line. I don't have a good Usenet feed, don't even check news very often & have to use Google; so I was not expecting to engage in a debate of any kind. I'm sorry now that I did it.

I've seen threads in r.m.f that were critical of Mudcat (Pete Seeger's banjo comes to mind) & now this one critical of r.m.f. (there may have been others). Personally I think if you have a disagreement with something said in a particular forum you say it to the the person there in that forum & duke it out there. If you have other complaints about r.m.f do your complaining there.

I quit r.m.f mostly because DejaNews got messages in a pretty timly way, but Google always seems too far behind.

A duffer.