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From: rlr@pyuxn.UUCP
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Subject: Re: New net.music.jazz group?
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Date: Wed, 17-Aug-83 12:52:28 EDT
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Writing articles to net.music is NOT cramming your ideas and tastes down
somebody's throat.  The newsgroup is a forum for ALL people who are
interested in music.  I repeat what I said in my last note:  If there aren't
enough jazz articles in net.music, it's because not enough people are
contributing such articles.  The existence of/desire for hundreds of
sub-sub-subgroups on the net is an indication of snobbishness, polarization,
and elitism.  Nothing more.  What other purpose could there be for having a
subgroup when there is already a newsgroup for such discussion?  ("I'm
sick of having to wade through all those 'y' articles in net.x .   Since I'm
an advocate of 'z' myself, and consider all 'x's other than 'z' to be
repugnant, I suggest we form net.x.z where we can rid ourselves of the human
scum who like 'y'.")

For those of you who miss my point, I hereby propose a new newsgroup called
net.music.jazz.swing.bennygoodman.1920s .  Since net.music.jazz.swing.benny-
goodman is currently filled with articles about Benny Goodman's music during
the '30s and '40s (which I am not interested in), I think that there should
be a place where there can be discussion among lovers of the music that
Goodman made in the '20s.
					Rich Rosen   pyuxn!rlr