Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site umcp-cs.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gamma!epsilon!zeta!sabre!petrus!bellcore!decvax!ucbvax!ucdavis!lll-crg!seismo!umcp-cs!mangoe From: mangoe@umcp-cs.UUCP (Charley Wingate) Newsgroups: net.music Subject: Re: variety Message-ID: <1601@umcp-cs.UUCP> Date: Sun, 15-Sep-85 21:51:15 EDT Article-I.D.: umcp-cs.1601 Posted: Sun Sep 15 21:51:15 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 18-Sep-85 03:25:38 EDT References: <333@decwrl.UUCP> <5234@mit-eddie.UUCP> Organization: U of Maryland, Computer Science Dept., College Park, MD Lines: 25 In article <5234@mit-eddie.UUCP> nessus@mit-eddie.UUCP (Doug Alan) writes: >> The person who wrote the note I responded to was claiming that people >> complaining about the quanitity of Bush postings were doing so because >> they didn't want variety in net.music. I don't even see how anyone >> could come to that conclusion. It's exactly opposite to the obvious >> truth in all respects. >You don't get variety through censorship! You get variety by >encouraging everyone to write about whatever they want to (and everybody >should!). I'll post articles about what I want to, and you post >articles about what you want to, and everybody else should post articles >about want they want to, and we'll have plenty of variety, and we'll all >be running up that hill with no problems. Well, the history of usenet would appear to indicate otherwise; constant hammering on a single subject eventually wipes out others, if only because people stop following the group. Incidentally, those of you who use rn should be aware that you can set up a newsgroup so that you do not have to listen to a particular person or site. If you have rn, you have no excuse for complaining about D. A. posting too much. Charley Wingate