jj@alice.UUCP (01/02/85)
Well, things have died down now, and I hereby report the following: 1) There were 31 responses to splitting net.audio into net.audio net.audio.query 2) There were two significant groups of replies: a) Among net.news.group readers who appear not to read net.audio, there were 19 responses, 17 NO and 2 Yes. Nine of the messages I got had appended a comment that there should be NO new newsgroups, a comment that I will allow to stand for itself. <or fall, perhaps?> b) Among net.audio readers, there were (surprise) 12 responses, 9 YES and 3 NO. I really can't say what this consists of as far as a mandate, since two of the No's were of the "I want to see the high-end stuff" class, something that isn't affected by the suggested change at all, and especially since most of the replies (and most of the negative replies) came from people outside the newsgroup. I guess that since the members of the newsgroup don't have much to say, and since the people who aren't affected have lots, and all bad, that I'll give the idea up and unsubscribe to net.audio, since I don't have time to read all the re-hashed questions. Gene Spafford has replied to my comments about "netiquette", and says that a net.audio section of netiquette is probably appropriate. I don't think it's proper for me to singlehandedly generate such a document, so I will converse with a few of the more prominant net.audio-(phile/phobe)s as far as what represents a set of commonly asked questions and a set of reprentitive answers. Toward that end, I am specifically asking TRBuckley,PMR,RCD,Wm Leler,RFGrantges, and one other person whose name escapes me at the moment to send me a short list of commonly asked questions that generate controversy and are generally resolved. Among those that come to mind are 1) Groove echo/print through, 2) cables (as regards low/high end cables, I intend to include the various viewpoints in whatever document is generated), 3) scorn and insult in general regarding those who hear things in different ways. -- TEDDY BEARS PROTECT PENGUINS FROM WALRUSES "I wish I was home again, back home in my heart again, it' been such a time since my heart's home to me. ..." (allegra,harpo,ulysses)!alice!jj
abc@brl-tgr.ARPA (Brint Cooper ) (01/06/85)
jj says he/she doesn't "have time to read all the rehashed questions," so he/she is unsubscribing to net.audio. I thought most sites, at a minimum, honored the "n" key (next item, please, I don't want to read this one) and that many more provide the means to preview headers and get rid of unwanted messages before reading. Si? No?
rfg@hound.UUCP (R.GRANTGES) (01/08/85)
[] Everyone, even jj, has days when it is just too,too much...whatever it is. -- "It's the thought, if any, that counts." Dick Grantges hound!rfg