HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: Matt Laurence <mlaurenc@world.std.com>
Subject: Crashworthy?
Reply-To: mlaurenc@world.std.com
Organization: The Internet
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1992 06:47:07 GMT


Hey there, oh not-so-little-but-still-cozy group of 
tweeners! Yeah, I too am still a-lurking about, even
as my gefilte fish are hung by the chimney with care
and visions of matzahballs dance in my head. Or something
like that. Anyway, thanks to my most wonderful darling
Jessica (*big smackeroo to you, kiddo!*), I find myself
equipped to see the first night show at the Palace in
New Haven! We may or may not, however, have a place to
crash after the show, and were wondering if any phair
phellow phishphan might have such simple accomodations as
a spare floor or two to lend us for the night. It might
not even be necessary, but it would be good to have as
a backup, and I could provide some sort of taping type
service in return from my eclectic collection of Phish
and others. Mail me at the address in the header if this
is possible, and we can arrange some sort of tapes to
go with the deal!

On a similarly immediate note, did we ever decide on a
gathering spot for the New Years Eve show? Someone
suggested one, but it turned out to be for Springfield...
I've been a bit lax lately and would love to know if
there's a spot. If we can arrange one, I can pretty surely
have a bunch of the new Net Shirts there and ready for
people before the show...! Anyone? Lemme know soon, if
so! And we can start spreading the word at the first three 
shows.

On a final, utterly unrelated note, you Bela Fleck fans must
have been made newly appreciative of the wonder of 
Palindromes, particularly if you have the latest album
(UFOTOFU) or saw a show... well here's one I love:

Go hang a salami; I'm a lasagna hog.

Another favorite, courtest of Bela himself:

Slap nuts; stun pals.

Truer words have ne'er been spake. Now go forth and
make merry, dammit!

Ho ho ho!

Matt
From: v055qqdr@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (TIM MCGRATH!)
Newsgroups: rec.music.phish
Subject: Rumored spring tour dates
Date: 22 Dec 92 14:36:00 GMT
Organization: University at Buffalo
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

hey now
     one of my friends in albany stopped by ticket bastard (to see in any
more NYE tix existed).  anyway, the ticketbastard employee also noticed 
that Phish were *scheduled* to play Roseland Ballroom on feb. 5&6. That's
a friday and saturday folks.   (roadtrip time).   no on sale date (yet)

   on another note..........what's up w/ New Haven, sold out?????

                                  Happy Holidays to all
                       see ya all in boston....................NYE(!!!)
                                                tim mcgrath
                                              v055qqdr@ubvms.bitnet 
Newsgroups: rec.music.phish
From: GRYMBLE GRUMBLE <williama@kenyon.edu>
Subject: DANG DARN FILTH FOUL!....
Reply-To: williama@kenyon.edu
Organization: The Internet
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 14:29:17 GMT

ONCE AGAIN MY SCHOOL'S FUGGIN INTERNET SYSTEM IS DOWN!
(remember? we love you Kenyon, oh yes we do...)

Anyway this puts a large dent in my plans to post the 
OFFICIAL DRE PICTURE GROVEL because I have no idea whether
this post will make it or not. I will have to wait until I get 
back to school to post it. (seing as how I'm leaving school in 
about 20 minutes) So everyone who has emailed me is on the list,
sorry I won't be here to take anymore names. I will be off the
net for awhile so email me directly if there is any problem and I 
will ge back to you in JAN. Oh well, I wphish everyone a merry
x-mas and happy new year! Phish on!
         
                                         dre :^)
See everyone at NYE and hope there
will be a gathering!
Newsgroups: rec.music.phish
From: koverber@cs.ulowell.edu (Kurt Overberg)
Subject: Who will be here
Originator: koverber@bigmax.ulowell.edu
Organization: University of Massachusetts at Lowell Computer Science
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 20:08:46 GMT


Hi all!

	I will be here over break.  You see, I don't
really have a break... :(  But, it means I still can play
on the net...  So... anyone want to set up a tape trade?
I just got some sick new tapes... ;)


				peace out.

				    kurt

-- 
Kurt Overberg            | Opinions expressed here are MINE!           
U of Mass, Lowell        | "Poke a double-decker on a Llama taboot,       
koverber@cs.ulowell.edu  |  Llama taboot, taboot!"      -Phish

Newsgroups: rec.music.phish
From: "John J. Liston [MacWEEK]" <72511.355@compuserve.com>
Subject: NYE Extra's...
Reply-To: 72511.355@compuserve.com
Organization: The Internet
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 18:02:59 GMT

I have four(4) extra tickets to NYE.  If you would like to make an offer 
please do so immed. via email: 
        
        72511.355@compuserve.com (or) 5435351@mcimail.com
        
         or you can call me @ 718-522-3167

Wishing everyone the very best during the holidaze...

Serendipity

John
Newsgroups: rec.music.phish
From: koverber@cs.ulowell.edu (Kurt Overberg)
Subject: Fluffhead!!
Originator: koverber@bigmax.ulowell.edu
Organization: University of Massachusetts at Lowell Computer Science
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 21:10:42 GMT



FLUFFHEAD! *fluffyfluffyfluffyfluffyheaaaaad*
FLUFFHEAD! *fluffyouhead*

How's that?

					peace out.

					   kurt

-- 
Kurt Overberg            | I honestly doubt you care about my opinions ;^)      
U of Mass, Lowell        | "Poke a double-decker on a Llama taboot,       
koverber@cs.ulowell.edu  |  Llama taboot, taboot!"      -Phish
Newsgroups: rec.music.phish
From: Adam Levin <Adam.Levin@lambada.oit.unc.edu>
Subject: Hoppy Gnu Beer
Reply-To: Adam.Levin@lambada.oit.unc.edu
Organization: The Internet
Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 05:25:10 GMT

...or something like that 8)

Could one of you people that were priviliged enough to see the NYE show please
post the set times and suggest places to flip 100 minute tapes for those of
us less fortunate ones who will be taping the rebroadcast tommorow.
              .
Wow, that was.one helluva run-on sentence, eh?
             .
Boy,        .
Man,         .
No tickets, .
Shit!        .
            :
-Adam    >-o
From: jojw@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (John J. Wood)
Newsgroups: rec.music.phish
Subject: Re: well...
Date: 2 Jan 93 21:55:28 GMT
Organization: University of Rochester (Rochester, NY)

Dark Mage asks...
>How much better is a sony d-6 than a sony d-3?

Nothing like how much better a DAT is than either.;-)

From somebody who doesn't own a DAT, but will someday...
 *-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=*
 | John J. Wood                              jojw@uhura.cc.rochester.edu  |
 |			                     catphish@well.sf.ca.us       |
 *-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=*
 | "mmmm...hogfat!";-)                                                    |
 *-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=*
Newsgroups: rec.music.phish
From: ericbe@microsoft.com (Eric Berman)
Subject: Re: NICU Lyrics & Chords
Date: 02 Jan 93 23:32:52 GMT
Organization: Microsoft Corporation

Thanks, David!  NICU is indeed a great song, and as of now it has been
added to the official chords file (but it may take a week or so to make
it up to the FTP site.)

I'd be interested in taking a little survey here.  In particular:
a) Have people found the chords file useful at all?
b) Do people who use the chords file have MS Word for Mac or Windows?
c) How many people out there play a musical instrument?
d) What instrument?

Please email me and I'll post a summary response.

Happy New Year everyone!

--Eric
From: your-email-addr@a1.mscf.upenn.edu (Jesse M. Goldman)
Newsgroups: rec.music.phish
Subject: Lawn Boy
Date: 23 Dec 92 19:36:02 GMT
Followup-To: rec.music.phish
Organization: University of Pennsylvania


      A friend gave me Phish's "Lawn Boy" CD as a gift. However, I don't
really listen to Phish.  Anyone wanna buy it? Sells for $19 asking $10.
Post responses here.  Thanks
From: phisher@aol.com
Subject: (none)
Reply-To: phisher@aol.com
Organization: The Internet
Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 05:50:11 GMT

From root Sun Jan  3 00:49:28 1993
From: phisher@aol.com
X-Mailer: America Online Mailer
To: phish@fuggles.acc.virginia.edu
Subject: Fluffhead.
Date: Sun, 03 Jan 93 00:49:28 EST

FLUFFHEAD!!!!!!!!
Actually.  I'm a glide.  :-)

I just can't wait!  PLEASE, someone put me out of my misery.  I desperately
thirst for the 12/29/92 Palace Theater Show, and the NYE Mathew's Arena Show!
 I am so desperate for these shows that I will add an extra bootleg of choice
to anyone who appeases this grovel.(I've got 30+ hrs.)
I really apologize for this shameless grovel.  What can I say?

...and the tree of knowledge will grow within your soul, and the helping
friendly book will plant the seed...

-Zach
Newsgroups: rec.music.phish
From: "Timothy J. Dalton" <dalton@mtl.mit.edu>
Subject: NYE REBROADCAST 1/1 WBCN 104.1 Boston
Reply-To: dalton@mtl.mit.edu
Organization: The Internet
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 20:49:56 GMT


WBCN (104.1) in Boston will be rebroadcasting the entire
NYE show on 1/1 at 12 noon...all 3 sets (4 hrs) as they put it...

Now you know.
From: fromm@rock.enet.dec.com (Rich Fromm 28-Dec-1992 2222)
Newsgroups: rec.music.phish
Subject: one more thought concerning directions
Date: 29 Dec 92 03:28:53 GMT
Reply-To: fromm@rock.enet.dec.com
Organization: The Internet

if you're coming from the PA, NJ, NYC area, there are plenty of ways to go,
but here's one word of advice: DON'T TAKE I-95

from PA/NJ, my rule of thumb is to also avoid NYC; so, to cross the Hudson,
I'd take the NJ Turnpike North, (if you're starting far enough south, that is)
get on the Garden State Parkway North, go into NY, get in I-287 East, and
cross the Hudson on the Tappan Zee Bridge; by far not the only way to go, but
it's what I use

once you're on I-287 East, my suggested route is I-684 North, I-84 East, into
CT, thru Hartford, into MA, and I-90 towards Boston

- rich

p.s. if you're heading to Springfield, slight modifications to above
directions:

I-287 East, I-684 North, I-84 East to Hartford, I-91 North to Springfield
Newsgroups: rec.music.phish
From: justin@galaxia.network23.com (Justin Brierley)
Subject: NYE gathering & tape trading
Organization: Dave's Very Own Personal System
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 16:14:58 GMT

Howdy,
  Has a place been settled on for a NYE net gathering? Does anyone know how
to get to this confounded place? Anybody want to do some tape trading?
INQUIRING MINDS WANT TO KNOW!!!!!!!!!!!!

                                    Justin Brierley

p.s. If you want to have your mind melted by some incredible guitar playing
pick up the cd "Love, Devotion, Surrender" by Carlos Santana & Mahavishnu
John McLaughlin. (OOF! drool, drool)
Newsgroups: rec.music.phish
From: SABRAHAM@lucy.wellesley.edu
Subject: Have a Safe New Year's!! :-)
Reply-To: SABRAHAM@lucy.wellesley.edu
Organization: The Internet
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 16:32:07 GMT

Can't wait to be in Boston tomorrow!  Thanks, everyone for the info on
the T, parking, etc...It's nice not to have to play it by ear or make
tons of calls.
YEAH PHISH!!!!!!!!! I'm so EXCITED!!!!!!! Any guesses as to what they'll
be playing? :-)
Hope to see some of you faceless people tom. night! I'll be wearing
my phish.net shirt...
Happy New Year!!!!!!
-sash
Organization: Arizona State University
Date: Tuesday, 22 Dec 1992 22:42:27 MST
From: david hollister <AXLAH@ASUACAD.BITNET>
Newsgroups: rec.music.phish
Subject:    Tempe, AZ show 4/13/92

Hey Now!
Phish played here on 4/13/92 at "After the Gold Rush", a bar in Tempe.
It was my first show and I had never heard anything by them before the
show.  Could anybody please send me the set-list if you know, or, even
better tapes?  Got plenty to trade if interested.  I'd sure love to
get the set-list if nothing else!

Thanks in advance.  Have a great holiday or two!
Newsgroups: rec.music.phish
From: jeg5s@uva.pcmail.Virginia.EDU
Subject: SIGHTING: People magazine (Flame!)
Reply-To: jeg5s@uva.pcmail.Virginia.EDU
Organization: The Internet
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 23:39:01 GMT

on page 21 of the December 28 - January 4 issue of _People_
magazine, the following flamable piece of crap:

"PHISH A Picture of Nectar  This neo-hippie outfit plays a
proficient fusion of jazz, rock, and funk.  But this album's
pervasive jokiness is insufferable - a mix of Dungeons & Dragons,
bong culture, and a computer-nerd-speak. (Elektra)"

And, at the bottom left of the page, above a goofy photo:

"PHISH  Mike Gordon, Jon Fishman, Trey Anastasio and Page
McCommell aswim in the first and we hope last neo-hippie,
techno-nerd fusion"

Well, as long as they're discouraging the crowds from getting any
bigger and the tickets from getting any harder to find, maybe we
should all write to People (c/o Time & Life Building, Rockefeller
Center, New York, NY, 10020; "include the writer's full name,
address, and daytime telephone number") and tell them we agree.
Yeah, that's the ticket!  Yeah, Phish sucks.  Yeah, we hate them.

Farce.  See you at these four shows.  IT'S GONNA BE FUCKING
AMAZING!! Let our new motto be:

  TTT OOO  H H EEE L   L    W   W III TTT H H  PPP EEE OOO PPP L

   T   O   HHH E   L   L    W W W  I   T  HHH  PPP EE  O O PPP L
   T  O O  H H E   L   L    W W W  I   T  H H  P   E   O O P   L
   T  OOO  H H EEE LLL LLL  WWWWW III  T  H H  P   EEE OOO P   L

(oops. to hell with people.  i think i'll make a banner that says
so....c ya there)


ELLIS OF LEMURIA  email: jeg5s@uva.pcmail.virginia.edu
   snail mail: P.O. Box 3240, Charlottesville, VA 22903
     +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
motto: keep smiling, gliding, and riding that train!!  :-)
Newsgroups: rec.music.phish
From: koverber@cs.ulowell.edu (Kurt Overberg)
Subject: NYE Set List
Originator: koverber@bigmax.ulowell.edu
Organization: University of Massachusetts at Lowell Computer Science
Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 21:20:05 GMT



Well, here it is.  I wasn't there, but I taped it off
of WBCN (they rebroadcast the concert today 12-4pm).  The
quality is pretty good... I sorta zoned out ( ;-) ) in the middle of
the second set, so I may have missed a few songs, but Im sure 
someone else will correct me...(sure hope so, I need to know
what they were...:)

New Year's Eve Show
Mathews Arena, Northeastern University, Boston MA
Set I
=====
<dunno, big intro jam>
Poor Heart
Maze
Bouncing Around the Room
Rift
Wilson
Divided Sky
Cavern
Foam
I Didn't Know (vacuum solo by "Tubbs"???)
Run Like An Antelope

II
==
Runaway Jim
Its Ice
Sparkle
Colonel Forbin --> Famous Mockingbird
   (big space ship appears, whole audience falls deep in the ocean, 
    asleep for 1,000 years, the glaciers show up, and when you 
    wake up, you are in Gamehenge)
My Sweet One
Stash     (everyone in audience clapped along with woodblocks!)
Glide
Good Times, Bad Times (Zepplin)

III
===
Mike's Song -->
I am Hydrogen -->
Weakapaug Groove
Harpua
   They did a really neat rap, something about the small
   town where Jimmy lived, the whole town gets together 
   in Jimmy's apartment, and they all try to raise the 
   good spirits for the new year...
   The evil man (Harpua's owner), Harpua and Poster are there.
   Reba was there too!  Then Harpua gets sick of it, and goes for
   a walk, then sees Poster... ;-)
Squirming Coil
Cover of "Diamond Girl?" Dunno by who orig...sung by Dude Of Life!
Llama

Encore
======
Carolina (Acoustic in front of 6,000 people!)
Fire     (Hendrix cover)

Please feel free to post corrections, and if I am wrong, someone
please tell me so I can fix my set list file!  Thanks!


					peace out.

					   kurt
-- 
Kurt Overberg            | I honestly doubt you care about my opinions ;^)      
U of Mass, Lowell        | "Poke a double-decker on a Llama taboot,       
koverber@cs.ulowell.edu  |  Llama taboot, taboot!"      -Phish
From: hudson@csa3.lbl.gov (ERIC HUDSON)
Newsgroups: rec.music.phish
Subject: the power of YEM lyrics
Date: 21 Dec 1992 15:18 PST
Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory - Berkeley, CA, USA
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: 128.3.254.198
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    

There is an incredible amount of conversation about the "true"
lyrics to YEM.  To expand on a theme already present in this discussion,
I ask--Must there be "real" lyrics?  If the lyrics are different for 
different people at different times, then maybe THAT is the extent of
their reality.  In fact, I think this points out the inherent audacity
of attributing an absolute meaning to ANY work of art.  Art, by nature, must
be ambiguous on some level. If you eliminate the freedom of interpretation from
an artistic experience, there isn't much left.

Even if we could determine the exact WORDS to YEM, I hope we would still leave
room for different INTERPRETATIONS of them.  Let's be happy with a song that 
leaves PLENTY of room for differences.  After all, if we all agreed on 
everything, life would be terribly boring.

By the way, the irony of this hasn't escaped me.  We are writing reams about
a line of near-gibberish.  Ain't life grand?

===============================

ERIC HUDSON			"Tomorrow Never Knows"

HUDSON@LBL.BITNET
From: akeeton@euclid.ucsd.edu (Allan Keeton)
Newsgroups: rec.music.phish
Subject: Me Phluphphhead too
Date: 29 Dec 92 19:55:07 GMT
Reply-To: akeeton@euclid.ucsd.edu
Organization: The Internet

YEAH!!!!!

Fluffee, Phluffee, phluphfee, phluphphee, fluphfee,fluphphee,
flufphee, phlufphee . . . HEAD!!!!!!!!!

Oh Yeah!
		-Allan
Newsgroups: rec.music.phish
From: Rich Fromm 31-Dec-1992 0213 <fromm@rock.enet.dec.com>
Subject: 12/30/92 Symphony Hall, Springfield, MA
Reply-To: fromm@rock.enet.dec.com
Organization: The Internet
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 07:28:37 GMT

I: Landlady, Sparkle, Melt, Esther, Chalkdust, Fluffhead, Paul and Silas,
Reba -> I Walk The Line -> Reba, I Didn't Know*, Bowie tease -> Timber Ho!**,
David Bowie

II:  Axcilla, Rift, Bathtub Gin, You Enjoy Myself*** -> Vocal jam****,
TMWSIY***** -> Avenu Malkenu -> TMWSIY -> Possum, Big Ball jam -> Hold Your
Head -> Honey Love -> Hold Your Head, Take the A Train -> Llama

E: Ride Captain Ship, Sweet Adeline (a capella, a microphona)

*w/ "Tubs" on trombone
**first playing on a while (last recorded entry in HPB is 12/9/89)
***w/ quote from "Auld Lang Syne"
****"Peter Shaw", cool chanting harmonies like they did at Albany
*****dedicated to everybody's....cousins

quick comments:  good show, no big surprises; saw a bunch of people from the
net, got the first ophicial 1993 PhishNet shirt, had a jolly good time;
security was pretty mellow throughout the show, but they were quite anal once
it was over about getting people out quickly

nye gathering?  a small consensus seemed to be converging on the Boston Beer
Works at 4:00, but who knows?  (and i'd call in advance if you're not 21,
because i make no guarantees there)

time to grab some munchies and head to bed...

c-y'all (or at least some of you) tomorrow!

- rich
Newsgroups: rec.music.phish
From: Joseph Collins <collins@gibbs.oit.unc.edu>
Subject: Unidentified Phish song
Reply-To: collins@gibbs.oit.unc.edu
Organization: The Internet
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1992 19:46:58 GMT

I just recieved Ziggy's 3/26/92 set 1 in the mail the other day and to my
surprise it had a song that I've never heard before.  The song has kind of
a reggae-ish sound to it and the main part of the chorus is "Tomorrow
First".  I figure it probably isn't a cover because the jam is too chaotic
for it to have been written by anyone other than Phish.  This song also
isn't in the Lyrics File.  Anyone heard this song before?
         Happy Holidays and I'll see you New Years,
             -Joe

Newsgroups: rec.music.phish
From: samuels@waldron.stanford.edu (Steve Samuels)
Subject: Where is Ian McClain's Farm?
Organization: Psychology Dept, Stanford Univ.
Distribution: na
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 92 22:45:39 GMT


Thanks to Jamie, the Ian McClain's Farm tree is going great and we all
have acess to a really sweet old tape.  However, nobody I've talked to
seems to know where the farm is located!  It's not in the HPB.  If you
know where Ian McClain's farm is (city and/or state), please email me:
samuels@psych.stanford.edu

Thanks,
HammaH
"... and there was light"
Newsgroups: rec.music.phish
From: jeg5s@faraday.clas.Virginia.EDU (John Ellington Godard)
Subject: Re: you asked for it...
Organization: University of Virginia
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 03:19:41 GMT


Newsgroups: rec.music.phish
From: dang@well.sf.ca.us (Dan Goodin)
Subject: I'm still here
Summary: duh?
Keywords: Phish
Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 03:43:58 GMT



Sure gets quiet around here when schools let out.  Kind of intimate, but
also kind of lonesome.  Anyway, I hope all of you on the east coast have a
chance to enjoy the shows.  Hope and pray for peace in '93.

Dan Goodin
Newsgroups: rec.music.phish
From: baggottj@hal.hahnemann.edu
Subject: New Haven ascii map & NYE time
Reply-To: baggottj@hal.hahnemann.edu
Organization: The Internet
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 18:03:11 GMT

My system isn't quite working so I can't read the newsgroups...

So if any kind soul out there could e-mail me that ascii map for the New Haven
show that was posted awhile ago, I'd be most thankful.  Also, I heard a rumor
that the the time for the NYE show had been moved forward by an hour or
something.  Is there any truth to this?  I'm leaving in several hours so a
quick email response would make me extremely happy...  Thanks.

Dan the Shoat,
Newsgroups: rec.music.phish
From: Rich Fromm 25-Dec-1992 2151 <fromm@rock.enet.dec.com>
Subject: personal to Rob Johnson
Reply-To: fromm@rock.enet.dec.com
Organization: The Internet
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1992 02:51:55 GMT

Rob,

if you see this, please give me a call (508-620-6542) or send mail

- r
From: shell@antares.Berkeley.EDU (Shelly Culbertson)
Newsgroups: rec.music.phish
Subject: Re: Hi folks...
Date: 23 Dec 1992 17:53:54 GMT
Organization: Dept. of Statistics, U. C. Berkeley
NNTP-Posting-Host: antares.berkeley.edu

In article <1992Dec23.051421.16884@uvaarpa.Virginia.EDU> MIBOWMAN@ccmail.sunysb.edu writes:
>I've been here but didn't really post since the fall tour started as not to 
>add to the hell that became of the net over the last month or so. 

Just wondering exactly what aspects of the net were difficult for you to
deal with -- if something doesn't seem right to you, please post!  I had
my own questions about the direction the net seemed to be headed in and
wrote about it, but from the response I got the impression that I was in
the minority by feeling that as a community we might want to consider some
guidelines for what would be appropriate to submit to the net at large (i.e.,
is it responsible for one person to command the attention of thousands of
people all over the world in order to ask for one tape?).  Anyway, as I
said, I came to the conclusion that others did not share my opinion and
I decided to stop worrying about it :-).  But I'm still very interested in
what other people have to say regarding keeping this community viable. 

>Shelley: just for a little sub-count (i know the rec.m.phish people arn't 
>countable) could you make a shlash on a peice of paper for everyone who 
>resubscribes when school starts again.. Just wondering how big we have grown.

Well, here are the best counts I can come up with right now:  there are
currently about 500 folks receiving the digest, down from about 600 two
weeks ago (i.e., 100 people suspended reception for the holidays).  I have
a feeling, though, that a lot of people who aren't currently reading didn't
bother to suspend their subscriptions, so the number of digestified
participants is most likely currently significantly fewer than 500. 

According to the propagation & readership reports available in news.lists, 
worldwide readership of rec.music.phish is estimated at 13,000 (up from
9,000 last month).  I think that that is also a little higher than the
number of folks actually reading/participating, but it does give us a 
vague idea of where we're at.


Shelly

Newsgroups: rec.music.phish