I don't agree with BS should have gone to the Annexe on the grounds that I'm not even sure that the Annexe should exist. My own preference does remain that Mudcat caters for music and community (although I do have questions about the cost of BS). I also believe that the BS filters can work. My frustration is the delays.

The DTStudy threads are a good idea but I don't know whether they will really take off or not. If they do, I forsee the problems of editing them with Joe and the Clones being overworked. An alternative approach would be to try to draw up a team of interested people who know a lot about music and to devise a means of them editing these threads. Maybe in time these sort of moves will be made here, I don't know... Currently though, the way I see it is that if anyone suggested that sort of tech change to allow limited editing rights on a certain group of threads or suggested that the number of editors may need increasing, it would be taken as treading on toes or interfering...

It is a shame about the errors in the dt but I'm not sure what can be done about it. I'll mention my own proposal again though. It would involve co-operation between Max and Dick Greenhaus. The idea would be to build up (or use the existing) team of harvesters but to have the Mudcat version of the dt online updatable by these people. This would share much of the load of adding songs and ensure that the most publicly viewed version of the dt was always pretty well up to date. Any copies for downloadable versions could be taken periodically from the on line version.

Jon