[peel] a modest proposal [long] : in memoriam: alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.peel

[Mark]

It's a really excellent idea. I'm sure you know many of us already post peel
sessions to alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.indie and I'm sure your idea would work
very well.



BTW it'a not actually that  hard to get a group going in the defacto sense.
You can bypass alot of the redtape by just requesting it on the main feeder
servers like Supernews and Giganews.



As for the Control message - although it can't be done with Outlook Express
it can with almost all other newsreaders including the free Gravity which I
think can still be found on Tom's Gravity Page.



But even easier is to find one of the usenet Mavericks like those on alt
free.newsservers. Then just ask and more often than not they'll oblige just
to piss off the usenet police - an informal term for usenet's equivalent of
grammar snobs.



However if you want to do it the "right way" then look at http://www
learnthenet.com/english/html/29start.htm 



or search for something better. In short it's avery good idea.



But there are encrypted p2p nets like www.filetopia.com where you can lso
start your own group and it's very very stable. I use it myself. It's
anonymous in the sense that you can't get a users IP address unless he
agrees. Otherwise the exchange is authenticated with public key cryptography




Lets bounce this one round and see where we go. After all we need something
robust if we do it.



 

-------Original Message-------

 

From: peel@yahoogroups.com

Date: 10/30/04 23:02:51

To: peel@yahoogroups.com

Subject: [peel] a modest proposal [long] : in memoriam: alt.binaries.sounds
mp3.peel

 

 

 

 

Usenet (hence my proposal) is fast, anonymous and enduring. Music is
available for many

weeks on a good server. It's simply, in my humble opinion, a better way to
share music

than any other. Unless you have a radio station that is.

 

To that end I've posted some old sessions under another nom-de-net on

alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.indie (many thanks and much respect to JonQ and
others there as

well) but normally (here's the thing) mp3.indie is merely the net equivalent
of the NME, eg

indie band du jour, and the antithesis of intelligent (Peel-style)
freeranging taste.

 

As far as other natural Usenet homes of Peeliana go- a.b.s.m.avantgarde is
just too often

a home for hairshirted jazz bores, and the .reggae people as you might
expect exclusively

post reggae, and so on.

 

All very boring, all very limited, and again, very unlike the reasons for

tuning into radio 1 at nights, year in year out.

 

Lastly, we can count on the BBC not to do proper justice to John's legacy.
Only this

morning on the Home Truths tribute programme they were talking about having
lost Peel-

related stuff from the archives. *Sighs*

 

So it's up to us.

 

I've never started a newsgroup before, but I understand it's not a complex

process.

 

That's alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.peel I'm suggesting.

 

Anybody interested ?

 

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