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From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: news.groups
Subject: Maybe a vote on rec.music.rock is in order...
	Re: While we're talking about global changes in newsgroups...
Message-ID: <6574@ficc.uu.net>
Date: 18 Oct 89 14:16:31 GMT
References: <6532@ficc.uu.net> <177@scorn.sco.COM>
Reply-To: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Organization: Xenix Support, FICC
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In article <177@scorn.sco.COM> davidbe@sco.COM (The Cat in the Hat) writes:
> But there's no way to determine a good name.

I don't see why not. "rock" is a good term for contemporary popular
music. I know this has been brought up before, with people summoning
the spectre of...

> "that doesn't belong here" flames.

but I don't believe in them. If people can post questions on IBM-PC
interrupt vectors to comp.lang.c and get answers then they can post
questions about Elvis Presley and Elvis Costello equally well to the
rock group.
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