Couple of new partial 1987 shows

[Stuart Mchugh]

> Also I have a vague feeling it may not originally have been a Yahoo  
> group
> Stuart McHugh , the list owner know all about this

hello  (*waves*)
Yup, guilty on setting the group up - interesting to hear people  
talking about how it started, as I'd not realised it had passed the  
10 year point. I'm not as old as martinw it would seem, though my  
memory is clearly dulled more than his, so how I could have set up a  
group I wasn't a member of is a bit of a mystery... anyway, the  
history goes roughly like this, for those interested:

I had started a Peel tape chain in the mid-90s and interviewed John a  
couple of times I think, and for whatever reason decided that a  
usenet group (of the form alt.music.peel) would be useful - for  
younger readers, the usergroups were, I suppose, the old web version  
of yahoogroups, or even forums.
The usenet people were very snotty, deeming the Peel 'genre' of music  
to be already covered elsewhere.

A mailing list was something that you needed to have a server to run  
- uk-indie, grunge-l and chugchanga were a few of the mailing lists  
that existed, maintained by people with technical skills and  
importantly, computing firepower.

But around that time, I think that egroups started up offering easy- 
to-manage mailing lists. So I set up the Peel list.
At that time mp3s didn't exist, and Peel himself was happily still  
with us, so the traffic was more about discussion of last night's  
show and what have you.

Yahoo bought over egroups at some point, and then when John left us  
and technology advanced, the traffic turned more to digitising old  
shows and membership obviously increased - I'd not realised quite how  
large the numbers were though! I haven't got involved with ripping  
tapes as the only ones I have left (out of maybe hundreds that  
entered the US via the Adobe mailroom in Seattle) are F50s already  
very well covered by the members here. Plus all my spare time is  
spent trying to run www.isthismusic.com and www.jockrock.org, to  
varying levels of competence).

Anyway, that's the story...  keep up the good work - back to lurk  
mode for me

Stuart