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From: dpm@hickory07.cray.com (Donald P. Maghrak)
Newsgroups: comp.music
Subject: Re: reality and computer sound [was WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO THIS NEWSGROUP?]
Keywords: question for discussion
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Date: 14 Jun 91 23:20:47 GMT
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In article <1991Jun14.164758.23557@agate.berkeley.edu> maverick@mahogany.Berkeley.EDU (Vance Maverick) writes:
>To reverse the decay of comp.music into rec.music.synth.backup, Greg
>Sandell proposes chasing all the synth people away, and then says such
>researchers as he have no time to contribute.  I think the latter is
>the real problem -- the only way to influence the tone of the newsgroup
>is by positive contributions.  So, since we haven't had any exciting
>computer-music discussions lately, I'll do my feeble best to start one,
>with a question that I know lots of people have opinions about.
>
Hmmm...This is getting confusing.  The above paragraph implies that this is a
-computer music group- (which I thought it was).  I recently recieved mail
from a reader of this group claiming it was a -music theory group-.  If it
is indeed a -computer music group-, then a broad number of topics can and do
apply (among them topics of technical/hardware merit).  If it is a music
theory group, then topics of technical/hardware merit should be moved somewhere
else.  If the person who sent me mail intended to write -computer music theory-
the technical/hardware discussions should probably be held to a minimum but
not eliminated entirely.
I have noticed the increased number of hardware specific postings.  In fact I
made a followup post on one and was notified that this is a music theory group.
Though the subject line was on Guitar Sounds, the discussion at that
point caught my attention when it shifted to tuning's and what made something
sound the way it sounds.   I felt that this discussion had some merit's for
a computer music group.

what to do?

1) rename this group comp.music.theory 
2) form a new group comp.music.technical
3) use rec.music.synth for technical/hardware topics.

>	Vance
Don Maghrak