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From: 9212osd@houxa.UUCP (Orlando Sotomayor-Diaz)
Newsgroups: net.news.group,net.music
Subject: net.music should be split
Message-ID: <349@houxa.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 6-Feb-84 17:21:00 EST
Article-I.D.: houxa.349
Posted: Mon Feb  6 17:21:00 1984
Date-Received: Thu, 9-Feb-84 09:10:48 EST
Organization: Bell Labs, Holmdel NJ
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I don't care one way or the other if net.records die a
violent death.  What I find amusing is the opinionated opposition of
certain individuals to split net.music among generally 
recognized classifications, e.g., net.music.classical.

Check the following data taken from our 'active' file.

Subs Group
---------------
   2 net.adm
   1 net.astro
   5 net.bugs
   7 net.games
   1 net.jokes
  10 net.lang
  12 net.micro
   1 net.movies
   7 net.news
   2 net.nlang
  12 net.rec
   4 net.sport
   2 net.tv
   1 net.women


I think the split of Groups into Subgroups as already
being done for the above makes perfect sense and makes
running 'readnews' a ** more efficient process ** from the human
and computational point of view.

If your argument is that we must keep the number of groups small,
I would agree with you provided that the efficiency question is
also part of the equation. And remember that groups can be removed
if they go into oblivion.

If your argument is that there is not enough interest in this
network for classical music, I would certainly like to argue that
it's not true.  Being a regular reader of net.audio, I know that
there are quite a lot of individuals in USENET that purchase 
classical recordings. However, a recording is mentioned in net.audio 
for its 'audio' merit, and not necessarily its musical quality.
Recently there was a discussion on the quality of FM radio stations
(transmission wise) and most of the stations mentioned were
mostly classical stations from all over.

If you feel that not enough people have gone in favor of splitting
net.music remember that it is most likely that the ones who could express
interest don't read net.music anymore (nor net.news.group). 
I'm one of them, and learned about this debate in mod.ber.

Replies to me at the address below.


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Orlando Sotomayor-Diaz /AT&T Bell Laboratories, Crawfords Corner Road
Room HO-3M-325	201-949-1532	Holmdel, New Jersey, 07733
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