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Jonathan Grobe <grobe@ins.infonet.net> wrote:

>This is a bad idea. While there is no newsgroup devoted to the blues now
>an RFD for rec.music.bluenote.blues was submitted to new.groups just
>a few days ago and is currently being discussed. 

Well I suppose you're right but the best way to do this is have a rec.music.jazz
and rec.music.blues - the way most of the universe splits these two forms of 
music - with the r.m.blues newsgroup gatewayed to blues-l.  The reality, 
however, is that there wasn't support to change names in bluenote or to gateway
blues-l to the rec hierarchy in blues-l.  So we're stuck with the silly and
absurd name (IMHO) of r.m.bluenote.blues ungatewayed to blues-l.

>The obvious place to gateway this mailing list is this newsgroup if it
>passes.

I believe this was voted on in blues-l and touch off a very heated round of
debate.  The main objection was the ease with which posts could be made to a
rec newsgroup and it was unacceptable to have a moderator.  It was feared -
especially by those who's only access is via the list - the list would have to
endure endless posts from the casual news reader.  This is a very active list
with 80 to 120 messages per day.  The compromise was to set up a uni-dir 
connection via bit.listserv whereby (as I understand it) the group can be 
read by a news reader but posts have to be made via the listserver (or is it
that you simply have to be subscribed to the list?).  This is acceptable to 
those of us with access to usenet since most of us simply want to have a
better way of organizing the numerous posts while keeping the investment in
time, friendship, and contacts we've built in blues-l.

>I fail to see the desirability of having two major Usenet blues newsgroups,
>one in bit and the other in rec.

There may very well be enough support and interest to justify two groups.  We 
won't know until we try.  I think both should be set up to see which has more 
support.  A compromise could be reached in the future to consolidate the two 
groups.

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