bee@cs.purdue.EDU (Zaphod Beeblebrox) (12/18/88)
This is an official call for votes for a new newsgroup: rec.music.dementia .
The uninterested can find the 'n' key now.....
Rec.music.dementia is a proposed new group for discussion of the types
of music that is played on Dr. Demento's syndicated radio show. It
will not be limited to only the music that is played on Dr. D's show,
but rather to the general type of music known to its listeners as
dementia. (Yes, those of us who listen to it can define very clearly
what is dementia and what is not.) Dementia as a type of music spans
across many types of music; from "Weird Al" Yankovic's rock parodies
to Ray Stevens's country-style tunes to Peter Schickele's P.D.Q. Bach.
The genre is wide-spread enough that most record stores have a special
section for it (usually semi-mistakenly labeled "Comedy"), and I
believe interest in such a group would be high enough to justify a
separate group for it.
Voting: Do NOT post your votes, rather mail them to bee@cs.purdue.edu,
or if your mailer doesn't like Internet-style names, then send to
..!{gatech,decwrl,ucbvax}!purdue!bee . (If you can get mail to Gene
Spafford, you can get to me via the same path.) I'm posting this at
2:00am, December 18, 1988, so the polls will close 30 days later, at
2:00am January 17, 1989. (Suggestion: put whether you're voting yes
or no in the Subject line. The easiest way is to reply via e-mail to
this article (the 'r' key in most newsreaders) and edit the Subject
line to match your vote.)
Note: followups have been directed to news.groups.
B.E.E.
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alias B.E.E. | After three days without programming,
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