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- From: rec-music-info@cp.tn.tudelft.nl (Leo Breebaart)
- Newsgroups: rec.music.info,news.answers
- Subject: REC.MUSIC.INFO: Welcome to rec.music.info!
- Summary: This is the introduction article to the moderated group
- rec.music.info. It explains what the group is for and why
- you might want to subscribe to it. It is posted bi-weekly.
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- Last-modified: 1992/11/27 19:32:35
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- *** Welcome to rec.music.info! ***
-
-
- Welcome to rec.music.info, a group that aims to provide a noise-free source
- of information and news for the entire rec.music hierarchy.
-
- Two introductory articles about rec.music.info are posted to the group and
- to news.answers each month. You are now reading the first article, which
- explains what rec.music.info is, and answers some Frequently Asked Questions.
- The second article is titled "Submission Guidelines", and you only need to
- read it if you want to submit an article to rec.music.info.
-
-
- --- What is the purpose of rec.music.info?
-
- The purpose or charter of r.m.info is to provide the Usenet community with
- a resource for information, news, and facts about any and all things
- musical.
-
- All the other rec.music groups are intended for discussions and general
- chit chat about music. Rec.music.info will contain informational, factual
- articles only. Followups are redirected to an appropriate other group, and
- further discussion (if any) will not take place in r.m.info.
-
- In order to ensure that r.m.info contains only appropriate articles, it was
- decided to create the group as a moderated newsgroup.
-
-
- --- Eh, what is a 'followup', and what does 'moderated' mean?
-
- If you are new to Usenet and are not familiar with the terminology, you
- might want to read the general introductory articles found in the newsgroup
- news.announce.newusers. Doing so will make your life on the net much
- easier, and will probably save you from making silly beginner's mistakes.
-
- If you think that at this moment you are reading an echo, a conference, or
- a bboard, I'd also strongly suggest a trip over to news.announce.newusers.
-
- For the rest of this article, I will assume you have a basic knowledge of
- Usenet terminology and mechanics.
-
-
- --- OK, so now I know what 'moderated' means. Tell me more.
-
- Rec.music.info is a moderated newsgroup, which means that all articles
- submitted to the group will have to be approved by the moderator first.
-
- The current moderator of the group (and the author of this article) is
- Leo Breebaart. Submissions to r.m.info as well as comments, criticisms,
- suggestions or questions about the group can either be directly posted to
- rec.music.info, or e-mailed to:
-
- rec-music-info@cp.tn.tudelft.nl
-
- But before you do so, please be sure to check out the "Submission
- Guidelines" article.
-
- The influence of the moderator is minimal and of an administrative nature,
- consisting chiefly of weeding out obviously inappropriate articles, while
- making sure correct headers etc. are used for the appropriate ones.
-
-
- --- Why does every article subject start with a capitalized word?
-
- The subject of every article posted to r.m.info starts with a special
- keyword. This will enable people to automatically select or kill entire
- categories of information that they are/are not interested in. Because of
- the keyword scheme we do not need separate newsgroups for e.g. chart
- listings, or for concert dates, or for discographies.
-
-
- --- What are the keywords, and what do they mean?
-
- At the moment there are 9 broad categories of rec.music.info articles.
- New keywords will be added whenever necessary.
-
- ADMIN: Words of wisdom from the moderator. Used for newsgroup-related
- information and administratrivia only. For messages that get crossposted
- to other groups (like the one you are reading right now), I will use the
- less confusing REC.MUSIC.INFO: keyword.
-
- CHART: 'Top <n>' lists from all over the world, usually posted
- periodically. Considered worthless trivia by many folks, charts are
- nonetheless hugely popular with even more people, so they make up a
- significant amount of r.m.info contents.
-
- DISCOGRAPHY: Discographies for recording artists in any genre.
-
- CONCERT: Tour schedules, special appearances, festival line-ups,
- this season's list of Boston Philharmonic performances -- you get the
- picture.
-
- RELEASE: Announcements of new music releases.
-
- NEWS: "Freddie Mercury, the lead singer of Queen, died this weekend."
-
- MAILINGLIST: Announcements and information pertaining to any of the
- existing musical mailing lists.
-
- FAQ: Frequently Asked Questions articles.
-
- INFO: Catch-all category for information that is useful but does not fit
- any of the above categories. Examples: "List of good classical record shops
- in Amsterdam", "Ftp site for Michael Jackson-related material established".
-
-
- --- Why don't you use genre related keywords like CLASSICAL or ROCK?
-
- 1] Because I want to refrain from making things needlessly complex, both
- for myself and for the readers.
-
- 2] Because the categories in rec.music.info are ideally supposed to
- transcend the separation of the individual newsgroups. I have no desire to
- mirror the subdivision of the rec.music hierarchy in rec.music.info.
-
-
- --- What type of material is considered inappropriate?
-
- There are three broad categories of articles which will be rejected by the
- moderator:
-
- 1] Requests for information: rec.music.info is strictly a one-way street.
- You people send me information; I then post it to r.m.info. Requests for
- specific information belong in the normal newsgroups. If your request gets
- answered, you might consider passing the answer on to r.m.info, though.
-
- 2] Reviews: there already is a dedicated, moderated newsgroup for musical
- reviews: rec.music.reviews. All reviews should go there.
-
- 3] Commercial stuff: this is a vague category. "Me and my buddies have just
- released our first CD" would probably still be accepted, but "We are looking
- for a guitarist" would be rejected. Rec.music.marketplace is the best place
- for "things/persons wanted" and "things/persons offered" articles.
-
-
- --- Will the material appearing in rec.music.info be archived somewhere?
-
- Yes. David Datta has generously donated space on his music FTP archive site
- for a rec.music.info archive.
-
- You can reach the archive by ftp'ing to cs.uwp.edu (131.210.1.4), and
- going to the directory /pub/music/info.
-
- Effectively this means that anything you post to rec.music.info will be
- permanently stored, so your work will not be lost.
-
-
- --- Will rec.music.info be just another rock/pop oriented group?
-
- I have only one answer to this: "not if I can help it". Unfortunately, that
- *is* more or less happening to e.g. rec.music.reviews -- very few classical
- or country or new age reviews appear there.
-
- Regular readers from all the music groups on Usenet are hereby invited
- to [a] give me ideas and feedback on how to make r.m.info interesting and
- valuable to them as well (e.g. new keywords I did not think of); to [b]
- scan their newsgroups for appropriate material and point the authors to
- the direction of rec.music.info, and to [c] submit interesting articles
- themselves.
-
- --
- Leo Breebaart -- Moderator rec.music.info
- Submissions & other mail to: rec-music-info @ cp.tn.tudelft.nl
- !!! Requests for information do *not* belong in r.m.info! !!!
-