From lwtcdi Sent Mon, Oct 20th 1997, 19:41
From lwtcdi Sent Mon, Oct 20th 1997, 19:41
> >> >> I am hereby announcing that I am writing a proposal, to be posted on > >> >> ALT.CONFIG for discussion, for a new newsgroup: ALT.MUSIC.AUTECHRE. The > USENET is such a lost cause. why would anyone subject their favorite musician/ > hobby/television program/science/whatever to spam, crossposting, and clueless > users? I'd have to agree with this one. The spam is a pain, but there are even more fundamental problems with newsgroups. Only the really large interest newsgroups (Star Trek and the like) get a decent amount of regular users. Most people just come and go, which means the same posts week-in, week-out (I know this happens here, but not half as much). The people on this list, in the great majority, CARE about music and contribute what they feel about what they listen to. It is also a forum for arists/promotors/record labels/fans to discuss what they want from each other (even if this doesn't seem to be happening quite as much since g303 (what happened to him?) & RDJ dissappeared). But still, where else would you have got RDJ and Black Dog arguing about music publicly? Certainly it would have never happened had there been separate Black Dog/RDJ lists/newsgroups. Remember when someone tried to set up and RDJ list like this one. Thank God that never worked. How boring would a solely RDJ based list be? The man and his music is interesting, but not THAT interesting! As for the Autechre newsgroup, what would happen inbetween Autechre releases. Surely there'd be almost nothing worth discussing besides philosophical debates as to their sound or whatever (which are fine here, where they belong and where there will be a difference of opinion). The best thing about this list is the diversity of music discussed. To cordon off artist like this is to reduce the power of this list for introducing people to new music, which is why I made eariler comments against all these Nazi 'clean up IDM' campaigns. If we cleaned up IDM the list would never move forward. Artists such as Luke Vibert would have never have been discussed for more than a few posts, because it would have been dismissed as off-topic. Ditto jungle (which IMO is still not discussed here enough). This is a progressive list we have here, unlike most others, and I propose we keep it that way. Gb. PS I'm sure there are many of us on the list who have bought something that they would not ordinarily buy, just because it has been reccomended or discussed here. I know I have. Surely this sums up what the list is all about - exploring music through communication.