Re: (idm) Trainspotters Anonymous

From AeOtaku
Sent Tue, Oct 5th 1999, 07:47

In a message dated 99-10-04 18:56:36 EDT, you write:

<< Yeah, I think a trainspotter is someone who knows a ridiculous amount of
 detail about a particular thing/event, and that someone like Lance, who
 keeps an organized database of information, but doesn't necessarily have
 fetishistic levels of information.  Lance is like a librarian, not a
 fanatical trainspotter who is into information for information's sake. >>

Lance is definitely the archivist. Or maybe just a computer program.
You can plug in a release, artist, track listing, anything, and get lots of 
info.
And might I say, I'm really glad he does it. Big ups to Lance.

So we are saying there's a difference between obsessive music lover and 
trainspotter? That seems right.

B.