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In article <2uvdi1$al6@insosf1.infonet.net>, grobe@ins.infonet.net (Jonathan Grobe) writes:
|> In article <rteeterCs87JL.Cx0@netcom.com>, rteeter@netcom.com (Robert Teeter) writes:
|> >
|> >Gateway for Blues-l under discussion
|> >Posted to bit.admin on June 30
|> >
|> Despite the growing popularity of blues
|> >music, there is no newsgroup devoted to blues on any of the major
|> >hierarchies. 
|> >
|> 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. 
|> The obvious place to gateway this mailing list is this newsgroup if it
|> passes.
|> I fail to see the desirability of having two major Usenet blues newsgroups,
|> one in bit and the other in rec.

This doesn't seem to make a lot of sense at first, but it does.

If I understand correctly, bit.bluesl, or whatever it will be called, will 
be a mirror of the list.  You can read it from Usenet, but to post, you 
have to have signed on to the group (or send email to the listserver). 

There are a lot of people on the list who 1. like the list exactly as
it is, and 2., are very concerned that a two way gateway to the list
would result in lots of extraneous postings and would ruin the 
nature of the list. 

There is another group of people on the list who feel the traffic is
way to high and who want newsgroup access.  The compromise was to have
the one-way link.

The r.m.b.b RFD is completely independent of the bit.bluesl proposal.
Also, I'm pretty sure that no one is currently working of having the list 
gatewayed to r.m.b.b, and there *are* people actively working on both
group proposals.  I am also assuming that list gateway to 
rec.music.bluenote.blues would be two way.  If so, this would not be 
acceptable to a lot of people on the list.           

My suggestion is to let both groups go through.  That way, everyone
is happy.  Sure, it's not perfect, but so what.  I predict that once
the groups are created, over time the issue of two separate groups
will be resolved.  But as far as I'm concerned, that's another story.

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