Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!njin!princeton!udel!rochester!kodak!ispd-newsserver!uunet!aplcomm!capd.jhuapl.edu!waltrip From: waltrip@capd.jhuapl.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: MusicProse and the encouragement of rumourhood. Message-ID: <1991Feb27.131845.1@capd.jhuapl.edu> Date: 27 Feb 91 18:18:45 GMT References: <16907@milton.u.washington.edu> <1024.27c4d49f@amy.skidmore.edu> <1991Feb25.021315.26139@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> <1991Feb25.053308.11272@csn.org!datran2> <120@heurikon.heurikon.com> Sender: news@aplcomm.JHUAPL.EDU Distribution: usa Organization: CAPVAX, JHU/APL Lines: 33 In article <120@heurikon.heurikon.com>, gtaylor@vme.heurikon.com (Gregory Taylor) writes: [...material deleted...] > With that in mind, an interesting thought occurred to me. The last > issue of NeXTworld had somebody sitting around with their net ears > up doing running tallies of the arguments and so forth raging here. > While I'm uncertain that such a column would continue, it *does* > occur to me that the bandwidth of the "Trade Press" would be an > interesting thing to harness here. So, whoever and whenever and > however that person may be, listen up: > > How'd you like to address something in your next NETcolumn to the > extent of "The news that CODA has indefinitely suspended work on > the NeXT version of MusicProse was met with large scale scorn, > derision and frustration. [...more material deleted...] Well, I suspect there's the germ of a good idea here. If you omit the "scorn, derision" and if someone from NeXTworld simply calls the CEO, reports the level of interest and then reports his reaction, it would be of some interest. This sort of thing might pop up occasionally on all sorts of issues and NeXTworld could probably get through to interview someone where most of us netters couldn't. An interesting kind of symbiosis between the USENET and the Press...might catch on. BTW, I'll take this opportunity to mention that I was extremely favorably impressed with the first issue of NeXTworld. Hard to see how they can maintain that level...will be really impressive if they can. c.f.waltrip Internet: Opinions expressed are my own.