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From: blickstein@speedy.DEC (Dave Blickstein)
Newsgroups: net.music
Subject: Re: the \"n\" key and Kate Bush
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Date: Thu, 27-Jun-85 15:38:42 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jun 27 15:38:42 1985
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I wanted to point out to Doug Alan and people in general that not everyone
who receives net.music can use the "n" key, which I suppose has something to
do with something on unix,  to skip over submissions.  There are now many
people reading this on non-unix systems who get net.music in one big
package.  Just by looking at the path names, I can tell you that these
people (and I am one of them) comprise a large percentage of the submittors.

Does this mean that you should stop submitting stuff on Kate Bush?  No.
But what I would implore you and others is to not deluge net.music with
two-way conversations, mass mailings intended only to popularize a particular
artist, or in general a large amount of articles on one topic that is not
of general interest.

Look.  It's obvious to everyone that you are a devoted fan who is trying to
give some exposure to Kate Bush by posting lots of articles on her. 
Unfortunately, if everyone in net.music started "campaigning" for their
favorite artist, net.music would become so bloated with trivia that no one
would bother reading it.  Believe me, if I wanted to, I could deluge net.music
with 30 pages of Dixie Dregs trivia each week. 

I think you are defeating your purpose by this type of campaigning method.
The first reviews of "The Dreaming" raised my interest in Kate Bush and I
had decided to check the album out.   Then the deluge of articles by you
and other Kate Bush fans indicated to me a high level of fanatacism and I
always get turned off by musical fanatacism.  I believe most other people
have the same kind of reaction.   You might say I'm depriving myself of
a musical pleasure, but no one can buy every album that comes out and 
we have to make our decisions based on our intuitions and many of us are
turned off to fanatacism (it's probably this very effect that gives you
your hostile attitude regarding Michael Jackson among others.)  I'm saying
this only to be honest and not to irk you in any way.   Being a fan of the
Dregs (who are in a very similar position to Bush in terms of being a very
non-mainstream band in the music industry), I understand how you feel.

	db

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