joe@wateng.UUCP (Joe Morrison) (06/06/85)
As the proud owner of a JUNO-60, I was excited to see this newsgroup get started, and looked forward to some great discussions on interfacing synthesizers with computers, etc. However, for the last week, I have been reading the same articles over and over again as the drum machine discussion wears on! *Please*, couldn't we move this discussion to net.music or net.philosophy or *somewhere* else! I might even suggest that the discussion be dropped, since it seems fairly evident that both parties concerned feel strongly about the matter and neither will change their mind... Yours inquiringly, -- Joe Morrison Systems on Silicon Group @ University of Waterloo -- -- -- -- decvax ! -- -- -- -- allegra ! watmath ! wateng ! joe -- -- -- -- -- ihnp4 !
jer@peora.UUCP (J. Eric Roskos) (06/11/85)
[Hi Joe.]
I have a suggestion; it's particularly useful in net.music, I've found,
where people write 200 comments on how many variations exist to some song
you've never heard of called "Louie Louie", or what the National Inquirer
said most recently was the way John Doe, drummer for BazzFazz, died, and
what charities he supported at the time.
1) Use the "vn" news-reader, if it's on your system, and then
2) give the command "ud" while looking at the discussion you don't want
to hear any more about. Thereafter, it will skip all followups to that
discussion. Saves lots of time.
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"Gnyx gb gur fhayvtug, pnyyre..."jf4@bonnie.UUCP (John Fournay) (06/11/85)
x > As the proud owner of a JUNO-60, I was excited to see this newsgroup > get started etc. > However, for the last week, I have been reading the same articles over > and over again as the drum machine discussion wears on! *Please*, > couldn't we move this discussion to net.music or net.philosophy or > *somewhere* else! I might even suggest that the discussion be dropped, > Joe Morrison > Systems on Silicon Group @ University of Waterloo Thank you Joe! Yes thanks to a select few obnoxious individuals, this group has deteriorated to petty bickering. Please stop it children! John
joe@wateng.UUCP (Joe Morrison) (06/13/85)
[Hi Eric!] >1) Use the "vn" news-reader, if it's on your system, and then >2) give the command "ud" while looking at the discussion you don't want >to hear any more about. Thereafter, it will skip all followups to that >discussion. Saves lots of time. I found out that the program I use, "rn" will also do that - the command is "k", while at the article selection level. (My 'n' key is breathing a sigh of relief! ;-) -- Joe Morrison Systems on Silicon Group @ University of Waterloo -- -- -- -- decvax ! -- -- -- -- allegra ! watmath ! wateng ! joe -- -- -- -- -- ihnp4 !
rlr@pyuxd.UUCP (Arthur Pewtey) (06/13/85)
> > As the proud owner of a JUNO-60, I was excited to see this newsgroup > > get started > etc. > > However, for the last week, I have been reading the same articles over > > and over again as the drum machine discussion wears on! *Please*, > > couldn't we move this discussion to net.music or net.philosophy or > > *somewhere* else! I might even suggest that the discussion be dropped, > > Joe Morrison > > Systems on Silicon Group @ University of Waterloo > Thank you Joe! > Yes thanks to a select few obnoxious individuals, this group has > deteriorated to petty bickering. Please stop it children! > John Fournay It would seem from the extracts above that the obnoxious individuals being referred to are Joe Morrison and John Fournay. If you don't like what you're reading in a public forum, turn the page! At least the discussion on drum machines is related to the topics of music and synthesizers. What you offer above (and admittedly, what this rebuttal adds to) adds nothing to the discussion and is in fact nothing but abuse and redundant flaming serving no purpose. There's already a newsgroup for that. The fact that you refer to people whose views you don't like as "obnoxious" lets us all know where you're coming from, my friend! End of flame. Back to the music... (Please) -- "Wait a minute. '*WE*' decided??? *MY* best interests????" Rich Rosen ihnp4!pyuxd!rlr