Top Gear - 5th Sept 1974

[Stuart Mchugh]

>> 2009/2/12 Alasdair Macdonald <wewalkforonereason@...>
>>


>   The wiki seems to be riddled with a semantic error: this mailing  
> list
> is a mailing list; it is not a newsgroup.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newsgroup
>
> http://peel.wikia.com/wiki/Peel_Newsgroup



I'd not seen that before - as it happens the reason this *mailing  
list* was set up was because the moderator types on Usenet (I think)  
refused to let me set up a Peel newsgroup. They were quite snotty  
about it I recall, saying that the general 'indie' (or whatever)  
category already covered that type of music, overlooking the fact  
that apart from it being a very discrete radio show rather than a  
music genre, Peel's shows covered such a wide range of styles that...  
anyway, I think I lost patience or quite possibly the rag with them  
and started this *mailing list* up.

Does anyone actually use newsgroups for discussions such as these any  
more anyway?

Stuart

Stuart Mchugh
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