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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
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Posted: Thu Jul  4 15:38:29 1985
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(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!