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From: woods@hao.UUCP (Greg Woods)
Newsgroups: net.music,net.news.group
Subject: Re: Re: net.music.dead
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Date: Wed, 20-Mar-85 14:45:33 EST
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> 	When we subscribed to the net about two years ago there
> was a newsgroup called "net.gdead."   There was never much 
> traffic.  I assume it went away because it was not used much.

  WRONG!!! net.gdead was not used much because some system administrators
decided unilaterally that it wasn't a valid group, and removed it from
their systems. As a result, an article posted to net.gdead only made
it to a small portion of the net, rendering the group useless. THAT'S
why there was no traffic. 
  Personally, I think the fact that this discussion (whether the Deadheads
should have a separate group) comes up at least twice every year is
sufficient evidence that net.music.dead *should* be created, if only to
end this recurring discussion! It, and other Dead-related postings, accounted
for over 30% of the articles in net.music last week. If that isn't good
enough evidence that a subgroup is needed, I don't know what is. Also,
we (Deadheads) tend to post lots of stuff that isn't really related to
music, like the color of Jerry's T-shirts, tickets needed, etc. A separate
group is clearly warranted, and I think the fears of Professor Paranoid
about every band having a subgroup are unfounded. If a group gets 30%
of the articles, I would have no objection to them having their own
subgroup, but so far that hasn't happened.

--Greg
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