Take offence at your posting Jeri? I can't see how you can read that in my response - if it seems there it wasn't meant to be there. (That remark "Anyone who gets excited and angry about that kind of "insult" must have led a remarkably sheltered life", which could possibly be read that way, wasn't directed at you - after all, on the evidence of what you've posted, it wouldn't fit you.)

I disagreed with some of what you said, but that's not the same thing at all. I believe we should always try to avoid being disagreeable, but I don't think that disagreement is something we should back away from. And I like a bit of rhetoric.

This has been a reasonably good-natured thread, leaving aside a few posts intended to push it the other way, which haven't succeeded in doing so.

I would hope that one effect might have been to alert a few more people to the existence of rec. music. folk, in the same way as the quote Shambles posted must have in practice led a few people to discover the Mudcat. That's good in both cases. Different strokes for different folks.