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From: rcd@opus.UUCP (Dick Dunn)
Newsgroups: net.music
Subject: Re: Dead Stuff Still Alive!!
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Date: Wed, 24-Apr-85 20:11:43 EST
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Posted: Wed Apr 24 20:11:43 1985
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> Why is it that there is still so much deadhead stuff on net.music?
> I thought all that stuff was being filtered out to its own little
> hole. Can we have the remaining stuff moved to its appropriate
> pile?

I wonder if the explanation of the subgroup will ever get through...
The point of net.music.gdead is to move a lot of the material related to
the Dead but marginally related (or even unrelated) to net.music readership
out to a separate group.  As of today, at our site, there have been 86
articles posted to net.music.gdead in under a month.

News propagates VERY slowly through some parts of the net; moreover,
creation messages propagate at the same speed as news.  It will take
propagation delays plus a few echoes (for people who are replying to old
articles without bothering to change the newsgroup...AHEM) to get rid of
most of it.

Of course, ->>you can still expect to see some Grateful Dead discussion in
net.music<<--the intent is that discussions of "general interest" (supply
your own definition for that) about their music would still go to
net.music.  The subgroup was created neither to isolate the DeadHeads (as
some have wished) nor to grant them a special privilege (as others have
complained)--it was created to try to focus certain discussions and get
them out of the way of net.music.
-- 
Dick Dunn	{hao,ucbvax,allegra}!nbires!rcd		(303)444-5710 x3086
   ...Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity.