Thanks, Joe Offer for obfuscating. As everyone can tell, having secret, wholly arbitrary editorial policies is working very well.

And thanks to the rest of you for so clearly pointing out it is perfectly acceptable for guests to post racist messages, but guests complaining about racist messages will not be tolerated.

As to the insulting remarks about rec.music.folk--at least there I know that when this sort of racist, hateful post appears, people with a whole lot more integrity than the lot of you, will always address it head-on, rather than trivialize and tolerate it.