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From: ttrueger@athena.mit.edu (Timothy T. Rueger)
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Subject: Re: Suggestions for new Pink Floyd newsgroup
Summary: compare to other psych-based newsgroups - YES
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Date: 13 Dec 89 22:33:10 GMT
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In article <680@hq.af.mil> illgen@hq.af.mil (Keneth..Illgen) writes:
>     As much as I have always liked Floyd I can't envision a newsgroup for
>them. Soon after approval of that you'd have calls for rec.music.dead,
>rec.music.zappa, rec.music.madonna, etc... Isn't there a catch-all group
>already for this sorta thing? I would think that would be the place for this
>stuff. Nice thought though.

Well, there does exist alt.rock-n-roll, for those who have access to the 
alt.* hierarchy.  There are rec.music.beatles, dylan, gdead, gaffa.  So there
is precedent for creating musician-specific groups.

These newsgroups came out of sufficient interest in both the
"mainstream" and from the "underground" (take those terms to mean what
you will, I think they're appropriate here).  Pink Floyd has very
similar appeal, so I think rec.music.pfloyd is warranted.

In other words, DO IT!

-Tim
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