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From: John_M@spectrix.UUCP (John Macdonald)
Newsgroups: news.misc
Subject: Re: Unwanted postings
Message-ID: <302@spectrix.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 24-Sep-87 11:32:08 EDT
Article-I.D.: spectrix.302
Posted: Thu Sep 24 11:32:08 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 26-Sep-87 09:39:14 EDT
References: <1197@wayback.UUCP>
Reply-To: jmm@spectrix.UUCP (John Macdonald)
Organization: Spectrix Microsystems Inc., Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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In article <1197@wayback.UUCP> wjh@wayback.UUCP (Bill Hery) writes:
-> [...]
->And another suggestion:
->
->The original posting was probably cross posted because there is no
->appropriate home for jazz articles.  rec.music.misc is dominated by rock in
->its myriad forms, and has so much traffic that it discourages jazz fans from
->subscribing.  Periodically, there is a move to establish a rec.music.jazz,
->but even though there are usually many postings in support there is
->apparantly not enough to get a group started.  This is partly a chicken and
->egg problem: many potential supporters of a jazz group don't bother reading
->a rock newsgroup.  Other musical genres have faced a similar problem, with a
->few (classical, folk) getting newsgroups, and others (jazz, c&w, easy
->listening) not.  How about having a rock newsgroup, so music.misc can really
->cover what seems to be the miscellania of the musical interests of the
->usenet readers?
-> [...]

This sounds to me like an excellent argument for the creation of
rec.music.rock (not rec.music.jazz), assuming that the above statement
that "rec.music.misc is dominated by discussion of rock" is correct
(I don't subscribe to it).  Separating off rock would leave the misc
group available for its normal purpose - discussions of music topics
that don't have sufficient volume to justify their own group.

This might be an usefull principle to consider for people who trying
to establish a splinter discussion group because the collective group
is dominated by some other topic.  Ask that a new group be created
for the topic with obvious demand, rather than for the one that can't
be heard in the background.
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