I had thought Conrad had finally grown up, and discarded his Pavlovian reaction to the word "Gaughan". Sadly that appears not to be the case . . .

Conrad's mistake, or point of departure from logic and rationality, (and, as others have pointed out, this has argued well beyond its natural life over on Usenet) is to confuse PERSONAL CHOICE (in one's repetoire, or even in that which one chooses to publish) with CENSORSHIP.

Conrad's ignorance (in both senses of the word) is his using Gaughan's (IMO) interesting thoughts on the nature of the tradition as an EXCUSE for a totally unrelated attack on Gaughan. Even if Conrad's accusations against Gaughan were justified that does not IN ANY WAY count against the article I posted, which must stand, or fall, in its own right.

G.