Eric, I'm not sure I was trying to defend as much as suggest I don't think that that type of thread (or this one for that matter) where one site appears to be moaning about another site does any one any good. It certainly is my belief that when people make comments about people they don't know on another site and others come in to read, a lot can be missunderstood.

I'm not sure whether you are the David I addressed in my last post over there or not but my reply was:

Everyone is entitled to thier own opinion David, but it seems to me that you have led quite a narrow and sheltered existance.
Mudcat can indeed be an excellent site and there is no doubt that some very knowledgeable people post there but there are other sites, not everyone with knowledge posts to Mudcat and some with expertise post to more than one site/newsgroup.

I can think of questions, I'd rather ask at uk.music.folk, alt.banjo, uk.music.notation, abcusers (email list for the abc music format), etc. than at Mudcat.

IMO, Parochial in Internet terms is more a matter of not taking the trouble to discover what really is out there and having beliefs such as one site can be all things to all people.

I could have equally suggested there are questions I would choose to ask at Mudcat (and have even suggested visitors to "my" site should ask here).

Jon