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- From: dgc3@kimbark.uchicago.edu (milovan djilas)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: NEW AMIGA NEWSGROUP PROPOSAL
- Summary: yes and no
- Message-ID: <1993Jan23.221511.16175@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Date: 23 Jan 93 22:15:11 GMT
- References: <C17MAy.87F@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>
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- In article <C17MAy.87F@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> shulick@navajo.ucs.indiana.edu writes:
- >c.s.a.audio is too general. That can be digitizers, programming
- >waveforms, etc. IMO, we definitely need c.s.a.music where people can
- >announce new mods, talk about music programs, etc.! So what do you say?
- >If this gets enough votes, I'll take it to alt.config and then 'control'
- >and get it created.
-
- Before my point, I'll say that this is the wrong way to create a new
- group. New group proposals should be discussed publically in a forum
- which includes most of the interested parties, then voted upon. All
- this should take place within notice of one of the news.* groups -- I
- believe it's news.announce.newgroups. I'm not sure of the precise
- procedure, but it's well documented in news.answers. (The reason for
- this is that many sites will never pick up a new group unless it
- passes through this procedure, and distribution will be heavily
- limited. Also, "toy" groups are spawned and destroyed every day, and
- unless you can prove through the semi-official procedure that your
- group is valid, it may be killed off before it ever gets a message.)
-
- Now the main point: c.s.a.audio is not a problem group -- it doesn't
- carry an abundance of extraneous material, nor too much traffic for
- its topic. There's no reason to create a new group explicitly for
- mods or for Amiga music. Further, some of us don't care as much about
- music as about other audio topics, and loss of so many readers to a
- music-only group would hurt both these people and those who might not
- realize how interested in it they are. Subpoint: if c.s.a.music, for
- example, existed, all the mod-writers out there would start asking in
- c.s.a.music for tips on sample work that are of interest to both
- c.a.s.audio -and- c.s.a.music. We'd either have to cross-post, which
- would be silly, or read two newsgroups, which also would be silly.
-
- That said, I would support the creation of a more generic mod-file
- newgsroup such as comp.music.modules, so that we get IBM *tracker
- stuff out of the Amiga hierarchy and mod stuff out of the
- alt.binaries.sounds tree. More importantly, mods are of interest to
- people on most platforms, and shouldn't be limited to the Amiga
- groups. Such a group might not be very busy, since much of the detail
- of mod creation, ripping, etc. is very machine-specific, but a lot of
- people out there don't know where to find info on mods since it's
- buried in a group that they only know has something to do with
- computers and girlfriends. :)
-
- --dgc
-