twiss@stolaf.UUCP (Thomas S. Twiss) (02/15/84)
Orlando Sotomayor-Diaz recently enlightened me on a few issues concerning the split, but I have to agree with Rich Rosen that it is dangerous to attempt to classify music into subgroups. The use of specialized rubricks implies that there are topics that fit exactly under them. The fact is, not all music can be classified under one rubrick. If people don't want to read certain articles, I guess I can understand their desire for subgroups, but I don't think that proper groups can be created (do I post an article on Fresh Aire in .rock, .classical, .art, .progressive? If I post in all of them, won't I get flames from people who think that Fresh Aire should be classified differently?). The point is, people are not going to classify music in the same way, so why try and set up artificial and superficial headings. I still must oppose the split. From the somewhat less adamant but still decided keyboard of, Tom Twiss ...!ihnp4!stolaf!twiss