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From: malik@star.DEC (Karl Malik ZK01-1/F22 1-1440)
Newsgroups: net.music
Subject: the big debate
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Date: Wed, 11-Sep-85 17:45:29 EDT
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Warning; non-music article follows

	This is prompted by the Doug Allen vs. Anti-Doug Allen
er, ...um, ...debate.

	Here's what's wrong with 'XXX is great and YYY sucks'.
No one cares!  And I don't mean this just for Doug. It applies
to a large percentage of postings to net.music.

	I mean, do you really care whether or not I like Bach?
What possible difference does it make what other people like?
Do you come home from school/work and tell your friends 'Boy,
I learned something interesting today, Fred Zork doesn't like
REO Speedwagon'?

	This is a relatively anonymous forum.  It's not like
talking with friends.  We're not interested in you (and you're
not interested in me).  We're interested in what you have to
say.

	Tell us something that you suspect will be INTERESTING
to other people.  Isn't that why you're posting something in
the first place?

						- Karl