Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site mit-eddie.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!ihnp4!mit-eddie!nessus From: nessus@mit-eddie.UUCP (Doug Alan) Newsgroups: net.music Subject: net.music.fans? Message-ID: <4604@mit-eddie.UUCP> Date: Thu, 4-Jul-85 15:38:29 EDT Article-I.D.: mit-eddi.4604 Posted: Thu Jul 4 15:38:29 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 6-Jul-85 09:47:52 EDT Distribution: net.music Organization: MIT, Cambridge, MA Lines: 56 (setf (cdr foo) foo) There seem to be some people who get upset and feel it necessary to tell other people to shut up when there are discussions in which they are not interested in net.music. This is not good. Because there are always going to be thick-headed intolerant people in the world, I think that a new newsgroup called "net.music.fans" should be created. This would be a newsgroup for any discussions of music related topics that might not be of general interest to the wretched masses of antifen. People would not have to feel guilty anymore about posting articles about such topics as whether or not one must be a vegetarian to be a true fan of The Smiths, how Rick Wakeman managed to keep his hair from getting stuck in his keyboard, whether or not the fact that Kate Bush paints her toenails and not her fingernails has any significance to appreciation of her music, the number of petals in Peter Gabriel's flower costume, the sex life of Syd Barret, what brand of head wax Tony Levin uses, how many throat operations Nina Hagen had to have to make her voice sound like it does, how to properly petition Hawkwind to do a tour of the U.S., whether or not Paul McCartney really died in 1978, whether the sequence of Jerry's shirt colors is really an encoded message from outer-space, etc. If anyone is silly enough to be a fan of Michael Jackson, they could even post articles on how many sequins there are in his ridiculous glove. Flaming at one another about how wonderful or awful each other's tastes are and why (especially the why) would be totally acceptable. Telling other people to shut up would not be. We could even then get rid of net.music.gdead and throw them in with net.music.fans. (Oh no, now all the DeadHeads are going to flame at me because they just have to have their own safe private haven, isolated from everyone else...). (If people think that such a newsgroup would just create way too much useless garbage for one mere UseNet to handle, then net.music.kate is also fine by me instead. This would also, of course, be a forum for all sorts of music, because anyone that's reasonable enough to be a Kate Bush fan, is going to be a reasonable person!) The Kate Bush fandom discussion would be moved to net.music.fans, of course, and the three or four Kate Bush haters out there then could continue to wallow in the mire of the peaceful eternal darkness that they so richly deserve. The Yes discussion could also be moved to net.music.fans. So Rich, how does that sound? Is that too objectionable? How does one go about getting a newsgroup created? I don't do politics. "I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing Than teach a million stars how not to dance" Doug Alan nessus@mit-eddie.UUCP (or ARPA) P.S. And if I see any more hate mail, I hope you all realize that it'll just inspire me to type in and post the entire contents of all seven issues of Break-Through!