ARPAVAX:arnold (05/11/82)
Maybe I'm dense (actually, compared to some forms of matter I'm quite sparse, but THAT's another story), but why can't those people who think the record survey is boring just type "n" to not see the message? Isn't that what the command is for? They've all been labeled clearly as far as I can remember, so what's the fuss? Yes, maybe it did belong in net.records, but I suppose we can live somehow. I don't read them, but I can't see getting all worked up about it. And if you unsubscribe, you'll miss all the interesting info this group still puts out. Why, oh why, must we get so hot and bothered about such trivial things as reading a subject line and typing "n"? Ken
kirk (05/11/82)
perhaps the "n" key is broken on some of those terminals.
dce (05/11/82)
I can't understand the screaming about the record survey either. This is a very good way to find out who has musical interests that parallel one's own. From other articles in both net.music and net.records, I have found some very interesting people with whom I correspond regularly. Also, I don't feel that there should even be two newsgroups. Both net.records and net.music cover music, both recorded and unrecorded, and it's hard to decide which one to send an article to. By the way, how many people out there actually subscribe to one and not the other? David Elliott unc!dce
wagner (05/22/82)
Because some of us read this nonsense at 300 baud. What is the point of a structured database where the structure is mushy or nonexistant? At 300 baud, just reading the headings takes forever. I have been skipping over this whole group for weeks because it was full of this stuff. Now I am on a faster terminal, I am glad I skipped it. There are many others who cant get to a terminal above 300 baud ever. Thats why there is a diversity of newsgroups. Michael Wagner, University of Toronto