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From: sommar@enea.se (Erland Sommarskog)
Newsgroups: news.groups
Subject: Re: While we're talking about global changes in newsgroups...
Message-ID: <388@enea.se>
Date: 21 Oct 89 19:56:24 GMT
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David Bedno (davidbe@sco.COM) writes:
>news.groups's own peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) said:
>-
>-rec.music.misc	I know this exists, but it's really a rock group.
>-			Creating a rec.music.rock would make this usable
>-			for people who don't fit elsewhere. Certainly there
>-			is existing volume!
>
>But there's no way to determine a good name.  Misc is a good way of covering
>all kinds of music that some consider rock; from heavy metal to 70's
>progressive to punk to Buddy Holly to modern top-40.  You create r.m.rock,
>you create "that doesn't belong here" flames.

That's so right. Rec.music.misc is a really miscealleous group. Yes,
the emphasis is on rock, but jazz, new-age or whatever such postings
are welcome. What? They have own newsgroups? But that doesn't say
that they are a no-no in rec.music.misc.

Creating a group to relieve another from traffic is not a good idea.
I tried this with rec.music.cd and what happened? Did all the "is
X out on CD?" disappear from r.m.misc? No, rather they are more of them 
now. Creating r.m.rock wouldn't leave r.m.misc a quiet place, rather 
rock posting would then appear in three places. (R.m.misc, r.m.rock and
alt.rock-n-roll.) Doesn't sound like a clean name space to me.

And the golden question: what is rock'n'roll and what is not? (Please,
don't answer.)

>But we've discussed this 7 ways from Sunday.  Unless I see a call for this
>again, I'm not going to get into this discussion.

That's right. We even voted once. The outcome was lame. 91-30 or so.
Peter has some good ideas, but this is not one of them. Let's stop
beating dead horses.
              -- 
Erland Sommarskog - ENEA Data, Stockholm - sommar@enea.se
"My baby's a 26. On a scale from one to ten, my baby's a 26." - Chic