Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!crdgw1!uunet!ora!bloom-beacon!dont-send-mail-to-path-lines From: nrc@cbema.att.COM (Neal R Caldwell, Ii) Newsgroups: rec.music.gaffa Subject: Re: (none) Message-ID: <1991Apr30.200533.10649@cbnews.cb.att.com> Date: 30 Apr 91 20:05:42 GMT References: <9104292320.AA12820@aristotle.ils.nwu.edu> Sender: Love-Hounds-request@EDDIE.MIT.EDU Organization: AT&T Network Systems - Columbus, Ohio Lines: 51 Approved: love-hounds@eddie.mit.edu From article <9104292320.AA12820@aristotle.ils.nwu.edu>, by barger@aristotle.ils.nwu.EDU (Jorn Barger): > Ed writes: > Hmmm... The bugbear of officiality bites... > > Not that I believe in voting, and not that I wouldn't vote for you, Ed, if > it were put to a vote, but as far as I can see the only official anything > we acknowledge right now is our pseudo-moderator. Another title that was bestowed rather than voted. :-) > and the voice said, more or less, "well, sod off then!" which actually > seemed rather valid: we have always been elitist in spite of ourselves, and > really owe it to fandom to make an effort at outreach, thru some kind of > edited hardcopy something-or-other available by subscription? The real question is whether we really have much of anything to offer in that format. Our strength is that we get information to those who can receive Love-Hounds faster than any other media and we have a large knowlege-base that any participant can easily tap into. Seems to me that any attempt to put this on paper loses most of its utility. Perhaps the closest you could come would a be a monthly single page newsletter with just news briefs and quick questions and answers. I think this would be useful but who would spend the time required for such an effort? For my part I've tried to make Gaffa more accessable by making it available instantly for any modem user willing to make a LD phone call (614-864-1198). That may not seem like much to grizzled USENET veterans but its considerably more hassle free than all but your most liberal public access sites and it is considerably more novice- friendly than your typical news reader (IMO). > my rankling envy again: who's this jeff to hand out official connections? I'd say someone who bothered to try to make the connections in the first place and is willing to share them. I get the impression that some folks guard these kind of sources jealously. After all, if they don't have some exclusive source of information, what are they doing besides repeating what the other fanzines/newsletters have said? Originally I didn't really think an official contact inside Columbia could be of much use. But Columbia did a pretty good job with material from _The Sensual World_ and advance notice of things like the Aspects... CD-5 would be nice. Beyond that an official connection to Columbia would allow us a more direct route for feedback. What better way to lobby for a B-sides only collection for the US? "Don't drive too slowly." Richard Caldwell AT&T Network Systems att!cbnews!nrc nrc@cbnews.att.com