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

[ckitlee]

Sorry for my ignorance.

I don't know how you can save the files to a listenable file from the 
newsgroup. It seems the .mp3 file is "within" the message but not an 
attached file which I can detach.


CK
--- In peel@yahoogroups.com, "Mark" <newswire@u...> wrote:
> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> However if you want to do it the "right way" then look at http://www
> learnthenet.com/english/html/29start.htm 
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> or search for something better. In short it's avery good idea.
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> 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
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> Lets bounce this one round and see where we go. After all we need 
something
> robust if we do it.
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> -------Original Message-------
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> From: peel@yahoogroups.com
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> Date: 10/30/04 23:02:51
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> To: peel@yahoogroups.com
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> Subject: [peel] a modest proposal [long] : in memoriam: 
alt.binaries.sounds
> mp3.peel
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> Usenet (hence my proposal) is fast, anonymous and enduring. Music is
> available for many
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> weeks on a good server. It's simply, in my humble opinion, a better 
way to
> share music
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> than any other. Unless you have a radio station that is.
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> To that end I've posted some old sessions under another nom-de-net 
on
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> alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.indie (many thanks and much respect to JonQ 
and
> others there as
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> well) but normally (here's the thing) mp3.indie is merely the net 
equivalent
> of the NME, eg
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> indie band du jour, and the antithesis of intelligent (Peel-style)
> freeranging taste.
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> As far as other natural Usenet homes of Peeliana go- 
a.b.s.m.avantgarde is
> just too often
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> a home for hairshirted jazz bores, and the .reggae people as you 
might
> expect exclusively
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> post reggae, and so on.
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> All very boring, all very limited, and again, very unlike the 
reasons for
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> tuning into radio 1 at nights, year in year out.
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> Lastly, we can count on the BBC not to do proper justice to John's 
legacy.
> Only this
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> morning on the Home Truths tribute programme they were talking 
about having
> lost Peel-
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> related stuff from the archives. *Sighs*
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> So it's up to us.
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> I've never started a newsgroup before, but I understand it's not a 
complex
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> process.
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> That's alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.peel I'm suggesting.
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> Anybody interested ?
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