Captain Birdseye,

If your music's as riveting as your messages then I for one will be certain to catch you the next time I'm in Ballybackofbeyond.

In the interim, at least get your targets right!

Fred McCormick (note that subtle distinction between the two letters 'C', Captain) did not post the FL Dick Miles thread. I did, though Fred contributed to that shortlived thread.

Why was it posted, you might well ask? For one reason only - to wind you up since you seem to be a spring just waiting to uncoil its latest pile of drivel on Mudcat. Why did I do it anonymously? Just to watch Dick's scatterguns blazing wildly.

If you bothered to check the Musical Traditions site thoroughly, then you might have found the answer to your initial question about the site's policies.

Dick, for heaven's sake, get your act together, try a typing tutor, and do something about your seeming knee-jerk need to respond to every Mudcat thread that's going.

'Guest' who does not even deign us with a pseudonym isn't just barking up the wrong tree but seemingly howling at an entire forest.

What on earth does the following mean 'remember there never was an unbroken tradition yet, anywhere, ever'? Try telling that to a fiddler in Donegal and the laughter will be reverberating for weeks later.

Then s/he adds 'MusTrad seem intent on driving a fence across the tradition, and the actually impossibility of this task seems to make them cross at times.' This is sheer nonsense and again reveals ignorance about the policies of Musical Traditions.

Whoops, I've been deposed again.