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From: jackson@curium.DEC (Seth Jackson)
Newsgroups: net.music,net.news.group
Subject: Re: net.music.gdead
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Date: Wed, 20-Mar-85 18:41:14 EST
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>I hereby propose the following additional subgroups:
>	net.music.beatles
>	net.music.stones
>	net.music.who
>	net.music.beachboys
>	net.music.yes
>	net.music.genesis
>	net.music.siouxsie&thebanshees
>	net.music.residents
>	net.music.huskerdu
>	net.music.pristinearea
>
>To be followed soon thereafter by:
>	net.music.beatles.XXXX  where XXXX is a beatle
>			[jokes about net.music.beatles.dead will be shredded]
>	net.music.genesis.withgabriel
>	net.music.yes.no
>	net.music.dead.drugs
>
>Is there anyone else who thinks THEIR favorite group is so different from
>the rest of the world of music that it deserves its own subgroup because
>it would just be IMpossible to discuss things in net.music?
>
>In case you hadn't guessed, this is a NO vote.
>-- 
>"Right now it's only a notion, but I'm hoping to turn it into an idea, and if
> I get enough money I can make it into a concept."       Rich Rosen pyuxd!rlr

Rich, you have succeed in demonstrating to all of us your complete lack of 
understanding of not only the Dead and their fans, but also of the issue
at hand. 

If there were a large group of people who felt strongly enough about the 
Beatles or the Who or Husker Du or you-name-it, such that they wanted a 
newsgroup where they could exchange info and trivia such as songlists, tour 
dates, anecdotes, bootleg tape lists, wild descriptions of cosmic jams and 
unlikely song combinations, who's going to what shows in what cities, etc., 
then I would say, well, go ahead and form a newsgroup. But the fact is, 
that there is not demand for such a newsgroup for the Beatles, the Who, 
Husker Du, or you-name-it, but there *IS* demand for such a newsgroup 
for the Grateful Dead.

There, Rich. Did I explain that simply enough for you to understand?

Seth Jackson

"Don't lend your hand to raise no flag atop no ship of fools"