I feel pretty certain that most posters on this thread keep files, or do we call them archives? It's difficult not to if you are a singer or record collector and are sufficiently interested to find out more about the origin/development of the music and the people involved. If nobody kept files our knowledge of the past would be sadly lacking. If you are running a magazine it is impossible NOT to keep files. There is nothing sinister in it.

Correct as far as it goes.

Tell me hootenanny, if someone had kept a file/archive about you, consisting of material sent to you over a period of years, not stuff you yourself have noted,and then published it in the form that Rod Stradling has, with anonymous contributions, would you be upset?

Especially when the publication calls for "concrete evidence"?

Keeping files as you seem to do is fine. However if I send you some anonymous jottings about people I don´t like, do you really think it is ethical to post them on an internet magazine?