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From: mangoe@umcp-cs.UUCP (Charley Wingate)
Newsgroups: net.music
Subject: Re: variety
Message-ID: <1601@umcp-cs.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 15-Sep-85 21:51:15 EDT
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Posted: Sun Sep 15 21:51:15 1985
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In article <5234@mit-eddie.UUCP> nessus@mit-eddie.UUCP (Doug Alan) writes:

>> The person who wrote the note I responded to was claiming that people
>> complaining about the quanitity of Bush postings were doing so because
>> they didn't want variety in net.music.  I don't even see how anyone
>> could come to that conclusion.  It's exactly opposite to the obvious
>> truth in all respects.

>You don't get variety through censorship!  You get variety by
>encouraging everyone to write about whatever they want to (and everybody
>should!).  I'll post articles about what I want to, and you post
>articles about what you want to, and everybody else should post articles
>about want they want to, and we'll have plenty of variety, and we'll all
>be running up that hill with no problems.

Well, the history of usenet would appear to indicate otherwise; constant
hammering on a single subject eventually wipes out others, if only because
people stop following the group.

Incidentally, those of you who use rn should be aware that you can set up a
newsgroup so that you do not have to listen to a particular person or site.
If you have rn, you have no excuse for complaining about D. A. posting too
much.

Charley Wingate


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