@Jim Carroll. "both you and Pseud have defended Harker vigorously"

Pseud has. I haven't. Show me where.

Jim, in 50 years time you won't have people who know you to speak up for you. A singer or researcher using your recordings and wondering about you will go to whatever the wayback machine has become and read your posts on mudcat. They will see that you attack people for things they didn't say, or that someone else said, and bury the nuggets of information that you add to a discussion amongst a load of strong but poorly expressed opinion. What conclusion will they draw about the reliability of your accounts?

On in the thread on Steve Roud's book I plugged a couple of first hand accounts of yours (on was your account of a Traveller dictating 'fanmily' songs to be printed so they could be sold at fairs). I though it was an important pointer to what may have gone on the the past put it kept getting passed over because it was buried in the middle of posts ranting about Roud's approach.