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Gateway for Blues-l under discussion
Posted to bit.admin on June 30

Followup to: bit.admin

Outline

I. Background to Blues-l
II. Why have a gateway?

	I. Background to Blues-l

	Blues-l is a listserv mailing list with 654 subscribers in North
America, Europe, Australia, and Asia and distributed from
listserv@brownvm.brown.edu.  The listowner is David Pimmel
(pimmel@cs.wisc.edu), who supports the following proposal. 
	Blues music is a great American art form with origins in such
African-American genres as slave spirituals and work songs.  Blues-l
covers the entire gamut of blues from the early years of the century when
blues was first recorded through the country blues of the Deep South to
the urban blues of the postwar years.  ("Blues-l is a list for the
discussion of blues music and performers, from Charley Patton and Bessie
Smith to Robert Cray and Stevie Ray Vaughan," as the list's official
description puts it.) Blues helped give birth to -- and continues to
inspire -- jazz, country, rock, and zydeco.
	If that's all that blues music was, however, it would be little
more than a historical curiosity.  But blues is a living and breathing
source of enlightenment and entertainment for millions.  Most Blues-l
readers enjoy discussing the latest performances and newest albums by
musicians young and old.  We also discuss the deeper cultural aspects of
the music.  Among our number are performing and recording musicians and
published authors.
	From David Pimmel's FAQ for Blues-l:

	"Any topic relating to the blues is appropriate to this list.
Topics discussed in the past have ranged from cultural aspects to
technical music discussions.  One of the nice things about this list
has been its wide variety in subjects...."

	II. Why have a gateway?

	Blues-l is a very active mailing list, often generating 80-100
postings a day.  Considering the growth of the Internet, we can only
expect this number to increase.  Some subscribers have had to signoff from
the list, because they lacked either the mailbox capacity or the spare
time to read it all.  They need a newsgroup format in order to sort the
postings into subject threads, so they could read the postings on subjects
they were most interested in.  Despite the growing popularity of blues
music, there is no newsgroup devoted to blues on any of the major
hierarchies. 


Proponent:				Blues-l listowner:
Robert Teeter				David Pimmel
rteeter@netcom.com			pimmel@cs.wisc.edu


-- 
Robert Teeter		| "Ripeness is all."  -- Shakespeare