Can't think of any other place to ask - and the Usenet groups are well down. Try going to
www.deja.com or
http://groups.google.com/ - then search for say uk.music.folk - the last posting on that was for Jun 25. Click around and find other Groups. They have all seem to have stopped being updated at Jun 25. What on earth is Google doing? It seems to have abandoned Usenet groups and its own Google Groups).