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

[Nigel U]

What news program are you using?

If it's Outlook Express, highlight all parts that you need, right-click, 
then Combine and Decode.

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "ckitlee" <cklee@...>
To: <peel@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, October 31, 2004 12:45 AM
Subject: [peel] Re: a modest proposal [long] : in memoriam: 
alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.peel


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> Sorry for my ignorance.
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> 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.
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> 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
>>
>> 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
>>
>> 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
>>
>> 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
>>
>> morning on the Home Truths tribute programme they were talking
> about having
>> lost Peel-
>>
>> 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
>>
>> 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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