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From: ellis@flairvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.news.group
Subject: Re: net.music
Message-ID: <142@flairvax.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 30-Jun-83 01:07:41 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jun 30 01:07:41 1983
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    Regarding a recent suggestion to split net.music into classical and
    popular -- there don't seem to have been many articles at all about
    classical music. The most frequent mention to classical lately is
    in net.audio, usually about hi-tech issues of stuff like Wellington's
    Victory and the 1812 Overture.

    Perhaps a better split would be between commercial/mass oriented music
    that's "really climbing the charts this week" and, well, just music.
    We could call them 'net.music.$$$' vs. 'net.music.???'.

    The $$$ group would be used for articles about Human League, Men at Work,
    Barry Manilow, Hooked on XXX, DISCOfied jazz, top forty anything, and
    other stuff you can play at parties**.

    The ??? group would receive articles ranging from anonymous 9th century
    composers to aging blues singers, and would encompass such topics as
    Surgical Penis Clinic, Tennstedt's latest Mahler release, Cabaret
    Voltaire, John Coltrane, Millions of Dead Cops... you know, stuff
    that empties out a room in 5 seconds flat leaving you in blissful
    solitude.

    Well, it's just another idea.

    Michael Ellis - Fairchild AI Lab - Palo Alto CA - (415) 858-4270

    ** (not MY parties)