chuqui@nsc.UUCP (Chuq Von Rospach) (02/16/84)
Rich seems to have summed up the pro and con arguments to splitting
net.music up quite well. I think this has gone on quite long enough, and if
we don't stop arguing about it may well take over the lead for most
megabytes wasted from spelling flames (or wombats, they seem to be tied
right now).
Therefore, I am proposing that we do the following: Absolutely nothing.
Except, of course, to stop arguing about it. To say that there is not a
clear consensus on the issue would be a minor understatement. What I have
seen, though, is that the people arguing against the split seem to
outnumber the people for the split (this is number of people, not volume of
yelling, since I seem to be able to make up for three or four average
flamers on a good day...) They have also brought up a number of things
about the proposed split that could create long term problems for the
topic. I don't believe them personally, but I also can't prove my beliefs
to the satisfaction of those that are worried.
My feeling is net.music is not broken, and the split was an attempt to
improve it. Since we don't have a reasonable consensus on the improvement,
the logical thing to do is nothing (If it ain't broke, don't fix it). My
biggest worry right now is that if this conversation lasts too long, it
will disintegrate into a name calling contest and everyone on net.music
will stop talking to each other.
Let's get back to discussing music now, fer gawds saik!
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