Some good posts here. Having read this and the thread about Mudcat on fRoots, would I be right in concluding there is no problem between 99 per cent of those who post on Mudcat and 99 per cent of those who post on fRoots?
The problem seems to be between the editor of Folk Roots and about three people who contribute prolifically to Mudcat, no doubt based in some dim and distant 'folk war' that nobody else cared about at the time and the three or four active participants have themselves probably forgotten how it started. It's folk music's very own Schleswig-Holstein Question!
A shame three or four individuals who chose to mark out their 'camps' so territorially should spoil it for everyone else.