[peel] Re: Top Gear - 5th Sept 1974

[Alasdair Macdonald]

There *is* at least one Peel newsgroup - free.uk.john-peel (seems to
be unused) - and some binary groups too.

At the time - or around the time this mailing list was formed, there
was a mailing list business called "onelist". I don't know if this
list was set up as a onelist, initially - however I dare say you
remember, Stuart. Subsequently they were acquired / renamed by
egroups. Subsequent to that, egroups were taken over by yahoo, and
branded "yahoo groups". Referring to this mailing list as a yahoo list
would be like referring to the FA Cup as the Carling FA Cup; it's a
brand that has changed in the past and is liable to change again in
the future.

2009/2/13 Stuart Mchugh <stuart@...>:
> 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