greg@olivej.UUCP (01/24/84)
I'd like to cast a vote against subdividing net.music into separate categories for rock and classical. My main concern is for all of the music which would then seem to fall into the cracks (jazz, show music and soundtracks, operettas and things like the various Kurt Weill pieces, and earlier pop recordings - Sinatra and the like). I personally don't care much for rock, but I often enjoy the articles written on the subject and, in any case, find it easy enough to bypass anything I'm not interested in. I'd rather do that than miss something that I would be interested in because of confusion over which category it would fit into. As to the combining of net.music and net.records; I think this makes sense. The only time I'd see a distinction between the two as being necessary is when someone would want to discuss strictly the sound quality of a given recording, in which case they would be most likely to be posting to net.audio anyway. Combining the two might encourage more discussion of recordings in conjunction with live performances. This brings up another point. I, for one, would be very interested in reading more articles about performances people have seen. People post articles about rock concerts, but relatively little about other types of music (particularly "classical"). Please share your experiences. Greg Paley
cej@ll1.UUCP (01/26/84)
[] I think Greg made a mistake in saying that the creation of music.rock and music.classical would cause other types of music to "fall in the cracks". As with other sub-groups, the main group would remain, for jazz, show tunes, etc. (Unless I missed something on news.groups) (This, of course, is another site voting for the merging and the subgroups). Chuck Jones Ideas for walls! ...we13!ll1!cej
gam@proper.UUCP (Gordon Moffett) (01/27/84)
I agree -- separate categories for net.music are unwise. I have found
I can easily skip over enties which are not of interest to me by
title so the mixture of musical preferences is not really a problem.
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Gordon A. Moffett
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hplabs!intelca!proper!gamtynor@uiucuxc.UUCP (01/28/84)
#R:olivej:-12400:uiucuxc:30800006:000:52 uiucuxc!tynor Jan 27 13:50:00 1984 I agree Steve Tynor ihnp4!uiucdcs!uiucuxc!tynor