woods@hao.UUCP (Greg Woods) (02/10/84)
I am not going to create subgroups, because the Rich Rosen's out there
will be too quick to say I am being selfish by doing so. I still support
the idea, but not for the reasons Rich thinks. I do *not* want to create
a net.music.dead . Yes, I like the Dead a lot. But the reason for creating
subgroups is *not* so I can go off in a corner and forget about all other
types of music (some of which I *do* like, believe it or not! :-), but rather
so others don't have to exercise their 'n' keys too much. The Dead,
*regardless* of my personal taste, Rich, clearly do not generate enough
discussion to warrant a group of their own. Rock music, on the other hand,
clearly does. In fact, net.music is so overwhelmed by rock articles that
we might as well be calling it net.rock . I *don't* get a chance to read
about any other types of music, even if I wanted to, and neither does anyone
else.
I think this discussion is important because it goes beyond the net.music
group. Other groups (like net.religion with the recent proposal for a subgroup
for Judaism) could benefit from this. Rich Rosen and I are clearly at total
opposite ends of this issue, with most everyone else somewhere in between.
This issue needs to be resolved, because it will come up again and again,
if not in net.music then somewhere else. But it should't be resolved with
a war between Rich and myself where I create a group and he rmgroups it (I
wouldn't put it past either of us, from what I've seen so far!) Most people
seem to agree with Rich so far, but I'm still getting mail. I will post
a summary of the responses I have gotten when the flood dies down.
P.S. Net.records is dead. Both the sub-groupers and anti-subgroupers
seem to almost unanimously agree on that. As soon as I figure out how,
I am going to rmgroup net.records .
GREG
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