Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!samsung!uunet!ora!bloom-beacon!dont-send-mail-to-path-lines From: larry@csccat.cs.COM (Larry Spence) Newsgroups: rec.music.gaffa Subject: Re: Brevity is the essence of wit.. Message-ID: <4362@csccat.cs.com> Date: 26 Jun 91 04:13:37 GMT References: Sender: Love-Hounds-request@EDDIE.MIT.EDU Reply-To: csccat!larry@uunet.UU.NET (Larry Spence) Organization: Computer Support Corporation, Dallas, Texas Lines: 45 Approved: love-hounds@eddie.mit.edu In article bullroar@darkside.COM (Mark Kraft) writes: >I'm quite sure that we all like lots of muscians, and that is quite an >admirable quality to have.. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Apparently you haven't read the post in r.m.music by the girl who would "give [her] very life to see Morrissey." %) %) >Could we at least agree to urge the weeding out of these >offending double-posts and make references to previous posts without quoting >the post verbatim ad nausea? When people are engaged in an argument where they're disagreeing about what various parties have said/implied, we're going to see old posts quoted. To the extent that I follow things like the AATHP/LL flames (not much), I don't want someone to make unsupported accusations. Quoting the other side's exact words can be tedious, but necessary. >This is really a magazine, of sorts, and as >such, we should issue a certain discretion to make sure that what we write >isn't too redundant. Another factor is that people all over the world see a post within maybe a few hours of each other, and many reply within hours of each other. So we end up with a bunch of posts that all quote the same posting. I can't see how this could be avoided without heavy moderation and a considerable delay. I would prefer to get everything ASAP and do my own editing. Subscribe to Homeground or whatever if you want it all neat and tidy (and boring)... >Just keep it informative, to the >point, and entertaining. We shouldn't try to be excessively American in our >hit & run viewpoint of entertainment, ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Oh, I see, that's all Kate is to you, _entertainment_, huh?!? %) >but it would be nice to see more >information and a tad less bickerring. There's not that much going on, Kate-wise, thus the various arguments & etc. Do you have some Tour O' Life Mark II info for us, hmm? %) -- Larry Spence larry@csccat.cs.com ..{uunet,texsun,cs.utexas.edu,decwrl}!csccat!larry