On May 20, 9:01am, you proclaimed:
} The problem is that the net currently lacks a decent general forum for
} the discussion of creative dance music. Alt.rave is overrun by
} testosterone-fueled jokers with mammoth sigs, and the regional rave lists
} are, by their nature, not the ideal forum for delving deeply into recent
} releases. I'm not sure that there's anything we can do about this (or if
} we should even try), but this little flame-up here is a symptom of
} the larger disease.
The "disease" is that no one's going to be satisfied perfectly by any
mailing list or forum, at least not until the state of artifical
intelligence is high enough that reliably strong smart agents will
roam the net plucking out articles and posts it knows you will like
and rejecting those it knows you won't. Until that time (and probably
even when people think that time has come) I'll be happy enough to
sit in on nearly-perfect well-focused forums, like IDM, happily
deleting those posts I don't find interesting and paying attention to
the 5 or 10 a day I do find interesting.
Brian