We have had a myriad suggestions (I am not dousing water on this one, don't misunderstand), but I remain puzzled at the problem. All the reader has to do is scroll down and pick out the music threads -- they are obvious -- and avoid the others. It cannot take much physical effort, and only about 4 seconds of click time. The objection is definitional: some people just don't like the place cluttered up with conversation about this and that, and want it to be devoted to some kind of community of serious folk music scholars. They seem to be unable to digest the fact that even in serious music threads folk musicians and listeners are eclectic, chatty, and prone to take the mickey out of each other. We could try a grand experiment: get Max to set up a site where only serious folk music could be talked about, and all frivolity edited out. It would be really exciting -- for the 10 people who showed up. For the first week. And then came back to this messy carnival.

yours, Peter T.