While I agree that attacks against a "natural" person are unacceptable, I understand that critising an attitude by a musician is one of the things this "discussion" group would be meant for. In fact, in my native Portuguese "discussao" both means "negotiating" and "fighting". The is always a fair amount of feather rustling in a discussion. For example, I don't believe one will fully understand Mingus's music if one doesn't analyse critically his attitudes, which could mistakingly be deemed as extra-musical situations, but which in fact define the way he appoached music. Personally I'm not sure there was any extra-musical criticism in some of the latest controversial postings on one or two famous guitarists. But even if they got slightly out of point, other people were there to counter the "offenders". There is always something to be picked from what can seem as a libel. My opinion is that topics should be explored ad nauseam.
