What is all this stuff? Mudcat is great as it is. Splitting the site would inevitably rob Mudcat of its essential nature and lead to degeneration from both points of view.

Have you been to a straight Folk Music discussion group recently? ... I haven't because if I want a response within, say, a month I come here. Have you been to a straight chat site? Ugh!

I sometimes get fed up with the number of NonMus threads, but it passes (and so do the NonMus threads). I look at some, and they enrich my ideas about the music threads.

I seldom post other than folk-oriented stuff (click on IanC above to see what I do post in) but I for one am well aware that we need quite a high volume of wide-ranging background information to make sure we don't end up dry as dust because we are that dust.

Mark My Words ... please don't keep trying to fix what ain't broke.

:-)
Ian