Thomas the Rhymer sez he has found mousethief to be somewhat generally irrelevant to the folk tradition, and doesn't understand why he's here. How insulting! I was under the impression that "the folk tradition" had to do with people writing songs, singing them and making them their own, as well as with living the experiences immortalized in song. By that definition, everyone on earth is part of "the folk tradition"!! (Yes, even our not-so-beloved flamers and cyber-stalkers.)

Just because another person's stalking experience does not match yours, Thomas, and just because his reasons for being on this website do not perfectly match yours (and mine certainly don't, either) gives you no more right to insult Alex (and, by proxy, the rest of us who are not thoroughly immersed in traditional music) than his cyber-stalkers have.