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From: jburka@silver.ucs.indiana.EDU (Jeff Burka)
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Subject: Re: Kate-Kate-Kate-Kate-Kate-Kate-...
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Date: 8 Apr 91 18:24:14 GMT
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Brian writes:


>Look, I like Kate too, but she's not the only game in town.  
>I was hoping I'd get turned on to something new, or at least discussions 
>on a *variety* of artists.
>Here's an honest suggestion: expand your horizons.

a) There's a reason this is called rec.music.*gaffa*.  It was created
specifically to discuss Kate Bush.  Don't like?  Read another newsgroup--
there are plenty that are music-oriented.

b)  I've been turned onto more music by more varied artists than from all 
the other music newsgroups I've read combined.  This includes artists like
Happy Rhodes, Jane Siberry, Concrete Blonde, and a bunch of others I
can't think of off hand, but that I would never have known existed if it
weren't for r.m.g and the people who populate it (thanks, Vickie!).

Kate Bush occupies roughly 1/20 of my music collection.  Most of those other
artists simply don't merit the sort of in depth discussion that much of
KaTe's music can induce.  What's wrong with having a place where this can
happen?

I don't know how it came to be that r.m.g exists (I find it interesting
that Love-Hounds occupies a place in the rec.music hierarchy, instead of
somewhere in the alt hierarchy), but if it bugs you to read a *newsgroup*
largely devoted to one artist, then why not subscribe to the Love-Hounds
Digest?  Then it's no different from any of the other music mailing-lists
out there--of which the ones I've read are *much* more rabid about maintaing
purity of just what appears.  

There's a magical "u" key on your keyboard--rn will know what to do with it.
Use it if you need to....

Jeff



-- 
|Jeffrey C. Burka                |"I've lost my way through this world of |
|jburka@silver.ucs.indiana.edu   | profanities/I thrive on the wind and   |
|jburka@amber.ucs.indiana.edu    | the rain and the cold."  --Happy Rhodes|