Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!uwvax!rang From: rang@cs.wisc.edu (Anton Rang) Newsgroups: news.groups Subject: Re: Maybe a vote on rec.music.rock is in order... Message-ID: Date: 21 Oct 89 01:20:51 GMT References: <6532@ficc.uu.net> <177@scorn.sco.COM> <6574@ficc.uu.net> <1035@root44.co.uk> Sender: news@spool.cs.wisc.edu Organization: UW-Madison CS department Lines: 35 In-reply-to: gwc@root.co.uk's message of 20 Oct 89 13:19:06 GMT In article <1035@root44.co.uk> gwc@root.co.uk (Geoff Clare) writes: >When there have been votes on rec.music.rock in the past they have >always failed because the resulting group would be no different >from the present rec.music.misc. True...then again, it would leave rec.music.misc to develop into something new. Still, I agree that we could use a lot of new groups in the rec.music domain...even if the definitions aren't always as clear as they could be, I feel a consensus would develop. >To make this work, as many new groups as possible need to be >created, ideally 10 to 20. Here are some suggestions: > > [ deleted, see <1035@root44.co.uk> ] > rec.music.newage Already have this one. > rec.music.rock-n-roll Could be renamed from alt.rock-n-roll. >I would really like to see this happen. My KILL file for rec.music.misc >is now over 400 lines, and becoming a royal pain in the arse. I agree. I rarely have the time to go through 1500 articles in r.m.misc to find the 20-100 which are interesting to me.... Anton +----------------------------------+------------------+ | Anton Rang (grad student) | rang@cs.wisc.edu | | University of Wisconsin--Madison | | +----------------------------------+------------------+