Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!apple!bbn!bbn.com!rshapiro From: rshapiro@bbn.com (Richard Shapiro) Newsgroups: news.groups Subject: Re: CALL FOR DISCUSSION: rec.music.pfloyd Message-ID: <50457@bbn.COM> Date: 5 Jan 90 13:59:12 GMT References: <9001031655.AA04473@snowmass.scd.ucar.EDU> <50425@bbn.COM> Sender: news@bbn.COM Reply-To: rshapiro@BBN.COM (Richard Shapiro) Organization: Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc., Cambridge MA Lines: 35 In article TAR@MAINE.BITNET (Thom Rounds) writes: > Alot of people say this. I want to ask a question to the net pertaining to >this subject. The question is this: If you wouldn't read a newsgroup, or are >indifferent to it, or just plain don't care, why would you vote no, making it >less likely for the people who *do* to read it? Why not just abstain? As explained before, I might vote 'no' if I think the community as a whole would be better served by keeping the discussion in a place where non-fanatics can see it. I would never subscribe to r.m.pfloyd because 90+% of the articles wouldn't interest me. If I don't care anything about Pink Floyd, that's fine. But if I enjoy the (very) occasional posting on r.m.misc, I lose -- I'll never see such postings because they won't be there anymore. By consolidating yourselves into your own group, you leave behind all the people with casual interest. This is the strong point of 'misc' groups -- exposure to things that you're not already a great fan of. >>Now if you could convince me that fans were discouraged from posting >>to r.m.misc, whereas they would post to a new specialty group (this >>was the r.m.dylan case), I would support the proposal. >> > Not r.m.misc specifically, but certainly in alt.r-n-roll there has been >quite a bit of anti-Floyd people telling us we have no right to post >there. I quit reading alt.r-n-r, so I can't comment. If the situation is as you say it is, then a new group is the right solution, and we casual fans lose. I would reluctantly support the creation of the group if there's good reason to think that you can't use existing groups. Have you tried r.m.misc? It has wider distribution than alt.r-n-r anyway.