D. Franks has been told quite reasonably and sensibly, by several experienced, distinguished and intelligent people on this forum that he is totally out of his depth. Many of the musicians I've played with, professionally and semi-professionally for over 40 years in genres such as folk, blues, jazz, rock'n roll, funk, etc., are not quite as reasonable and sensible as this, and would have simply told him to f*ck *ff a long time ago. But he just can't take the hint, can he?

The problem, IMHO, is that all the activity generated by every thread he starts ("5,000 Morris Dancers" etc.) is actually giving an ignorant nonentity a kind of prominence which he doesn't deserve. All he has to do is never answer a question directly, repeat the same trite phrases, and make references to his puerile website - and there you go: another half-dozen posts... quite subtle in a warped kind of way, though I'm sure he hadn't realised it.

I do agree it's important to challenge this mindless xenophobic crap and not let it dribble on, but perhaps the best way now is simply to ignore this and any other threads Franks posts, so that he will fade away, unnoticed in the overall Mudcat traffic.