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- From: pete@mimsy.umd.edu (Pete Cottrell)
- Newsgroups: alt.config
- Subject: Re: PROPOSAL: alt.music.TBone-mafia
- Message-ID: <63623@mimsy.umd.edu>
- Date: 22 Jan 93 18:29:10 GMT
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- >>There's got to be a better name for the newsgroup though -- while this
- > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- >agreed
- >
- >>is a pretty tightly-knit sort of musical mafia, to the uninitiated, the
- >>word "mafia" is an inevitable throw-off. Maybe something like:
- >>
- >>alt.music.Tbone.et.al OR alt.music.TBBurnett.et.al ?
-
- But these aren't them. Capital letters are a bad idea, and I think that
- the greater the number of name-parts appended to a group, the less serious
- the perception of the newsgroup by the casual observer; people will tend to
- put it into the same category as the nonsense groups using the pattern of
- alt.something.foo.foo.foo that fit a number of silly groups, or an
- alt.group.with.a.long.name.probably.created.by.a.forged.newgroup. I
- suggest staying with alt.music.tbone-mafia, or alt.music.tbone-group, or
- maybe just alt.music.tbone or alt.music.tbburnett.
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