<zoot@sparta.dogsquad.com's message of Tue, 18 Mar 1997 00:25:58 +0000 (GMT)>
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zoot@sparta.dogsquad.com (Black Dog Droid) writes:
quoted 5 lines Wrong list.> > Wrong list.
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> but...it's intelligent...it's dance...and it's music.
> I can't help but feel it would liven up conversations
> in here, if you guys would "open up a little".
That's not the way a mailing list works, really. A mailing list is
usually (after it's been going for a while) only somewhat tangentially
"about" what the original stated purpose of the list was. A mailing
list is a collection of messages from people on the list, about
whatever people feel like talking about.
The development of the idm list is pretty typical. Someone discovers
that they are listening to a group of artists that seem to have
something or other in common with each other, and that there seems to
be interest in establishing a forum to discuss these artists. (In
this case it was AFX, Orbital, Black Dog, Autechre, Underworld, etc.)
A name has to be chosen, and "idm" is as good as "blahblah". As time
passes, people on the list get excited about other artists (Goldie,
Ninja Tune, and so on) and people talk about them instead. If people
collectively got interested in Siberian mouth music instead, that
would be what would be discussed here.
The same phenomenon could was rather marked on the 4ad mailing list in
92-93 when nobody ever talked about any artists associated with 4ad,
it seemed like.
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larsi@ifi.uio.no * Lars Ingebrigtsen