Conference Restart and Reorganization

Nov 12 22:02 UTC 1996

For quite some time I've been happy to have the Music conference be one
of the few conferences which goes back to the dawn of Grex.  But I think
that five years of text has become too much to keep in the active
conference.  

Leslie and I have been kicking around some ideas, and we are proposing
the following:

1)  A full restart of the existing Music conference.  Don't know 
    if the old conference should be left around as music1.cf, or 
    dumped into the storage cf.

2)  Recruiting one or more new FWs to replace Mike McNally, 
    FW Emeritus, whose account was reaped long ago.

3)  Creating a new Classical Music conference.  There was some 
    interest in this a couple of years ago, and we weren't crazy 
    about it at the time.  It needs a name.  Proposed FWs would 
    be arabella and chelsea, assuming Mary's interest.

    Should items from the Classical Music conference be linked, 
    by default, to the general music conference?  

I've also got some ideas for trying to promote the music conference
by handing out flyers at Schoolkids and Encore, and maybe a few 
other record stores; I don't know if I should do that now or wait 
for Backtalk.

Discuss!

response 2 of 35:

Nov 13 01:47 UTC 1996

I still like the idea of a Classical Music conference.
There are most certainly a number of item in this 
conference which should be linked into a Classical
conference - mostly items where Delizia has gone
ape-shit over this or that and spewed his guts so
eloquently.  I love those responses to death.

In fact, Delizia should really fairwitness the thing.
He has put more interest into Classical music discussion
on Grex than everyone else rolled together.

There will probably be items which could be linked from
Music to Classical Music but I don't think there needs to
be an automatic link of everything anywhere.  My 2 cents.

response 4 of 35:

Nov 13 15:56 UTC 1996

        I think a restart and a classical conference are both fine ideas.
I also thinking linking some of the lengthy reviews of classical cds from
here to classical would be a good idea.  I would be willing to be an fw
for the music conf.

response 6 of 35:

Nov 13 22:48 UTC 1996

Hm, according to 'finger', md last logged in on November 10.
But regardless, he's been awfully quiet around these parts
lately. If he's available, he'd be a great fw for classical
music -- I'd like to see arabella, chelsea, and md all be
co-fw's.

<but remmers wonders in which conference his 'ragtime notebook'
 item would properly belong...>

response 8 of 35:

Nov 14 03:42 UTC 1996

I'd think Ragtime would fit nicely in Classical.  
I think of it as foreplay for the Jazz era.

response 10 of 35:

Nov 14 11:31 UTC 1996

I've had a hardware upgrade that's left me with
a great new high-speed error-correcting modem but the only way to
connect to Grex or Mnet with it (that retarded I know of) is the
"terminal" program in Windows 3.1, which I guess must be pretty lame.
The text I see has lots of missing characters.  Kinda like listening
to a muffled conversation on the other side of a closed door.

So I can't f-w anything, much as I'd like too.  I'm not even sure
I'm responding appropriately to this item.  This thing works like
a dream on AOL, so I know it's basically sound, I just need to
figure out what to tell it that'll make Grex doable.  If anyone
has any ideas, you can mail me at MDelizia@aol.com.

Very flattered by the references to me here, I think.  SOmething
about ape-shit, which is where I go alright.

response 12 of 35:

Nov 14 15:22 UTC 1996

Re 10 - We can get you better comm software, if you want it.
Let us know.

response 14 of 35:

Nov 15 00:02 UTC 1996

Very nice.  I hope Michael gets his hardware problem
solved soon.  I've missed him around here.  I thought
maybe he was withholding his commentary as a sign of
solidarity with the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra.

Also, I really like Ken's idea of putting flyers
in SKR, Tower, Border's, etc., and a advertisement
in select concert programs.

Jim Leonard is a neighbor.  Next time I see him
I'll ask if he'd be interested in participating in
this conference.

response 16 of 35:

Nov 15 06:48 UTC 1996

I like the idea of a classical music conf, but I have gotten by so far by
forgetting the non-classical items. A separate conf would be easier, no
question.

response 18 of 35:

Nov 15 10:04 UTC 1996

Forgiven.  And my sympathies.

response 20 of 35:

Nov 15 16:16 UTC 1996

We still need a picospan-suitable name for the classical music
conference.  Should we just try for "classical"?

response 22 of 35:

Nov 16 10:58 UTC 1996

I wouldn't worry about it. If they do that, they'll figure out
what they did, do the right thing, and never make the mistake
again.

I'm having a hard time thinking of a suitable name *other* than
"classical" or something close to that. Since Picospan allows
long conference names and lets you specify how much you're
allowed to leave off by way of abbreviation, I'd suggest the
full name "classicalmusic", abbreviatable to "classic" (which
would also allow "classical").

At some point, someone should report on the outcome of this
discussion in the "new conference proposals" item in Coop, just
to make it official.

response 24 of 35:

Nov 16 16:49 UTC 1996

Delightful.