riddle@ut-sally.UUCP (Prentiss Riddle) (12/18/83)
As long as we're arguing about removing newsgroups:
Can anybody give me a good reason why both net.music and net.records should
exist? According to the official list of newsgroups, the two groups are
theoretically:
net.music Music lovers' group.
net.records Records, both new and old, of all musical varieties.
In practice, however, I can detect no such difference. People seem to freely
discuss records in net.music and musical styles in net.records (as one might
well expect, since the two are inseparable in an age of recorded music).
I see no distinction made between the two groups in terms of the kinds of
music discussed (z.B. classical in one group and pop in the other) or the
seriousness of the discussions (z.B. trivia quizzes in one group and reviews
in the other). An informal survey of the recent articles archived on ut-sally
shows 164 items in net.music and 51 in net.records. Of these, 20 are
duplicated in both groups, representing 12% of net.music and 39% of net.records.
This being the case, why doesn't net.records simply adjourn to net.music? Does
the confusion continue out of sheer inertia? If so, it seems to me that an
announcement and a "cancel" command would solve at least part of the problem.
Cold weather always makes me yearn for decisive measures :-) ,
Prentiss Riddle
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