cjp (05/12/82)
Having two newgroups for one news interest is unsatisfactory. My suggestion is to make net.music the main newsgroup for musical recordings. Sure there *are* things on record other than music, but I'd consider it an acceptable solution to have a separate newsgroup per recorded genre, like net.comedy, if interest warrants it. Let net.records handle discussions pertaining to the physical recorded objects (records, tapes); things like availability requests, quality of pressings, etc. Let net.music take on the discussions pertaining to the content of records, as well as to live performances. Discussions of content seem to comprise the majority of net.[music records] articles so far. I would, by the way, include the record surveys in net.music, since it is what is *on* the records that is relevant and not the records themselves. Charles Poirier (duke!cjp)