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From: rlr@pyuxn.UUCP (Rich Rosen)
Newsgroups: net.music.classical,net.news.group
Subject: Re: Survey of net.music.classical readers
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Date: Thu, 10-May-84 17:14:25 EDT
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Posted: Thu May 10 17:14:25 1984
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Organization: Bell Communications Research, Piscataway N.J.
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[REMEMBER, *I'M* WITH THOSE OF YOU WHO WANT THIS DISCUSSION MOVED TO
PRIVATE MAIL; THERE ARE THOSE OUT THERE WHO ARE CONTINUALLY POSTING
ADDITIONAL ITEMS ON THIS TOPIC...]

>If you wish to contribute articles about classical music, feel free to join us,
>else let us enjoy each others contributions.  Don't worry about being left
>out - just add 'net.music.classical' to your subscription list.

Already have, thank you.  My complaint is not MY being left out but rather
YOUR excluding yourselves from the mainstream of net.music.  The newsgroup
loses its diversity of contributors if one group chooses to isolate themselves.

> The problem with net music - like many such groups is that
> it is too broad for those of us with more specialized tastes.  This is why
> net.auto is divided into sub-groups for different makes & models of cars.

Which net do you subscribe to?  I've never seen any such subgrouping.
(Of course, Piscataway is known to be a bit behind in terms of the net...)
For those who ask "why is it OK to have subgroups of net.micro, et al,
but not net.music?"  I never said I liked that idea either, but that was
established long before I joined the net.  I am complaining about the resulting
loss of net diversity that subgrouping proposes, NOT about people's rights to
read (and write) what they choose.  Frankly, I don't see how having one group
infringes those rights.  Please tell me how!!!!  (i.e., by answering the
survey I posted [which asks those questions directly] instead of making
rude comments about it in this newsgroup or mailing me notes that say "Rather
than answer your survey, let me say that I think that net.music.classical is
a good idea, and I don't know why you're complaining about it.")

> Although my musical tastes are fairly broad (including classical, folk,
> country, and some jazz), I DON'T subscribe to net.music, since I don't feel
> like 'n'ing' past all the Top 40 rock articles.

One of the questions I ask in the survey is "Do you realize that everybody
who subscribes to any newsgroup has to 'n' past a whole bunch of articles
that they don't like?"  Are all newsgroups going to be divided up so that
everyone will like all the articles in each subgroup, or are we going to
have a network where diverse groups of people with different tastes share and
pool resources?  To me, this is a fundamental question, so please don't
answer with "C'mon Rich, you don't think that one little subgroup is going
to..."
-- 
"So, it was all a dream!" --Mr. Pither
"No, dear, this is the dream; you're still in the cell." --his mother
				Rich Rosen    pyuxn!rlr