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From: sommar@enea.se (Erland Sommarskog)
Newsgroups: news.groups
Subject: Re: Maybe a vote on rec.music.rock is in order...
Message-ID: <389@enea.se>
Date: 21 Oct 89 20:27:19 GMT
Organization: Enea Data AB, Sweden
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Geoff Clare (gwc@root.co.uk) writes:
>To make this work, as many new groups as possible need to be
>created, ideally 10 to 20.  Here are some suggestions:
>
>	rec.music.artrock
>	rec.music.charthits
>	rec.music.dance
>	rec.music.disco
>	rec.music.elevator
>	rec.music.fifties
>	rec.music.funk
>	rec.music.hardrock
>	rec.music.indie
>	rec.music.instrumental
>	rec.music.metal
>	rec.music.newage
>	rec.music.progrock
>	rec.music.rap
>	rec.music.rock-n-roll
>	rec.music.sixties
>	rec.music.soul
>	rec.music.soundtracks
>	rec.music.thrash


AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH!

Where the hell do I post my Gensis query? To artrock or to progrock?
Or since I'm curious about some newer material maybe I should try
with charthits. Come on, the rec.music space is not like comp.lang.*.
There are no sharp boundaries, haven't been and never will. And even
worse, some of those damned musicians insist on sometimes doing this,
sometimes doing that. Should I carefully think "let's see in which
newsgroup does this Joe Jackson album fit?" Easiest thing must be
to cross-post to them all.

>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.

Seems overkill to me. Must be quicker to have no kill file, and
then kill each uninteresting topic with the "k" key. I do that
and it works fine. (And despite the fact I'm a regular contributor
I kill about 25-40% of the articles.)

Rec.music.misc is a high-volume group, and that's what I like about
it. You may be reading about Yes in one moment, to be thrown to
Madonna in the next, then moving over to Sex Pistols and then something
new again. What do you want? American commercial radio?
-- 
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