Fred... I have to take issue with you over the 'let sleeping dogs lie' attitude that you expect Nick and others to take.

Yes, 20 years is a long time but, after reading Mr Stradling's vicious attack on Nick as a collector, then I know why he is still feeling hurt.
20 years ago his work may have seemed to have little importance ..... electric folk was all the go and source singers, particularly those who had lost their ability to perform, were obviously not worth bothering with.

Sadly. Mr Stradling was so tied up in trashing the tape, that he actually forgot to review it in its entirity.
I would have expected the review to contain rather more comment on the track list than was managed...... was the content folk?, popular song?, etc.
Sadder still is the fact that there are still reviewers out there who believe they have a right to commit this sort of insult (There was a recent example of such a review in my local folk magazine).

These are not matters of State. There should be no 'publish and be damned' attitude particularly when the recipient of your remarks has no form of redress.
I still believe the old adage applies. If you can't think of anything nice to say - don't say anything and I would have thought far more of Mr Stradling if , rather than berate you for letting the world know what he had written, he had actually, belatedly, published an apology.