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From: ericksen@unc.UUCP (Jim Ericksen)
Newsgroups: net.news.group,net.music
Subject: Re: Yet Another Rogue Group -- net.music.guitar
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Date: Tue, 1-Oct-85 21:44:20 EDT
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Posted: Tue Oct  1 21:44:20 1985
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> 	What I'm getting at is that there are established rules for
                                    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> the creation of new groups. Stick to them! Net.bizarre got started
> illegally and look at the trouble we are having in killing it.
> 
> -- 
> Edward C. Bennett

    But does that make them GOOD rules?  Comparing net.music.guitar and
net.bizarre is hardly applicable.  While net.bizarre is glutted with
garbage, net.music.guitar (in it's few days of existence) saw some
very worthwhile postings, the likes of which are seldom seen among
the dreck which fills its parent group.  Perhaps there are enough
people on the net who are interested in discussions of serious musical
pursuits, but are not (and have not been) willing to sift through 50
articles a day on whether Madonna or Prince is the sex symbol of the
1980's; so even though there has not been a large traffic on guitar-
related articles in net.music, might it not be possible that there
would be a large audience for such a group anyway?

    My point is not just that net.music.guitar should be allowed to exist,
but that the idea that a newsgroup can only be created due to a large
volume of news WITHIN A PRE-EXISTING NEWSGROUP on a particular subtopic
of that newsgroup is not the optimal (or even a desirable) solution.  In fact,
it is obviously self-defeating, in that the trivial subjects that are
endlessly harped upon should apparently be awarded their own subgroups
at the expense of other topics (let's see, we'll have net.music.trivia,
net.music.trivia.followup, net.music.trivia.followup.followup, net.music.mtv,
net.music.censored-lyrics, net.music.censored-lyrics.louie-louie, ...).
-- 
Jim Ericksen
UNC Chapel Hill


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