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From: mgresham@artsnet.UUCP (Mark Gresham)
Newsgroups: comp.music
Subject: Re: reality and computer sound [was WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO THIS NEWSGROUP?]
Keywords: question for discussion
Message-ID: <1298@artsnet.UUCP>
Date: 19 Jun 91 08:17:04 GMT
References: <9106120249.AA20142@lilac.berkeley.edu> <1871@culhua.prg.ox.ac.uk> <2100@anaxagoras.ils.nwu.edu> <1991Jun14.164758.23557@agate.berkeley.edu>
Reply-To: mgresham@artsnet.UUCP (Mark Gresham)
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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.

I think the time issue is as much as anything a matter of wading
through all the synth-head postings; even junking and killing takes
time.  My own complaint is the spooling space absorbed on my machine,
as I do not run a full news feed and I am NOT a university -- I
have my own system and space is valuable, and would not like to
deny myself access to comp.music research postings because a
university has decided not to carry rec.music.synth (for the same
reasons of space, processor and modem time that I don't carry it)
resulting in synth people putting their postings on comp.music or
cross-posting.

It's a bugger of a problem because *someone* is going to have to
give up hardware time and space, but Greg's right in that it needs to
be the systems whose users are interested in rec.music.synth, not
those of us who have to accept such postings second-hand in the
wrong newsgroup.  Those users are going to get their synth
postings out on the net one way or another, so those systems will
still be carrying such traffic -- they might as well give access
to the right newsgroup for it.

Cheers,

--Mark

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