Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site decwrl.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!harpo!decvax!decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-speedy!blickstein From: blickstein@speedy.DEC (Dave Blickstein) Newsgroups: net.music Subject: Re: the \"n\" key and Kate Bush Message-ID: <2922@decwrl.UUCP> Date: Thu, 27-Jun-85 15:38:42 EDT Article-I.D.: decwrl.2922 Posted: Thu Jun 27 15:38:42 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 1-Jul-85 06:03:19 EDT Sender: daemon@decwrl.UUCP Organization: DEC Engineering Network Lines: 40 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 (UUCP) {allegra|decvax|ihnp4|ucbvax}!decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-orphan!blickstein (ARPA) BLICKSTEIN%ORPHAN.DEC@DECWRL.ARPA