Re: Nice to see you all agin

[Doug Alan <nessus@athena.mit.edu>]

> From: adams@bosco.Berkeley.EDU@ (Jeffrey P. Adams)

> Okay, I'm finally bold enough to post.  On behalf of all of us
> "newcomers," may I ask:

> 1. I gather that KB-related postings are the rule here.  Are the other
>    postings (i.e. The Cure, etc.)
>    a) really wanted desparately,
>    b) mildly encouraged,
>    c) tolerated, or
>    d) not desired, but you put up with them so nobody gets mad that
>       you have a really narrowly focused newsgroup  ?

(e) All of the above.

> 2. What is the difference (or for that matter, the similarity) between
>    rec.music.gaffa and the oft-mentioned Love-Hounds?  Is Love-Hounds
>    a group, a newsletter, a fan club, another name for the newsgroup,
>    or what?  If there's a group involved, how does one get involved?

rec.music.gaffa is really the gateway onto Usenet of an Internet
mailing list that existed before the newsgroup.  The mailing list is
called Love-Hounds, and if all the software is working right, the set
of messages received by people on the Love-Hounds mailing list should
be identical to the set of messages seen by people who read the
rec.music.gaffa newsgroup.  The reason that the newsgroup is not
called rec.music.love-hounds is because it was disallowed by the
facist netnews administrators.

Your humble pseudomoderator,

|>oug