From: fscll@acad3.alaska.edu (Chris Lott)
Subject: Re: Maple vs Hyok round 2
Organization: University of Alaska Fairbanks
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 06:19:11 GMT

In article <1992Apr12.204838.2949@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>, jks2x@faraday.clas.Virginia.EDU (Jason) writes:
> 
> 	Chris Lott:  You are absolutely right.  People have every right
> to post whatever they want in whatever group they want.  I could, if
> I felt the need, post about Frank Sinatra in alt.thrash.  But the only
> reason to do so would be to get a reaction out of the regular readers
> (Unfortunately people do this all the time).  This group was created to 
> discuss the likes of Megadeth, ("So Far, So Good... So What!" in blasting 
> into my ears now) Sepultra, Anthrax, etc.  I didn't include Metallica 
> because they've got their own group, though they seem to be a big topic of 
> discussion here too lately.

No, there is an even better reason. The minute anyone listens to a bunch of
raging assholes is the minute we are bending over for them. If they would just
shut the fuck up with their poser-bashing (which is another name for being
insecure and immature) then no one would care to post about those bands here,
right? 

>         Any g-n-r fan who thinks they're HEAVY metal is not listening to what
> the band has said in interviews.  Just like Nirvana they've said "WE ARE
> NOT HEAVY METAL".  If you think we should be discussing g-n-p here why
> not just have one HUGE newsgroup where we talk about everything from 
> Judas Priest, to sewing, to blowing up your neighbors car?  The different
> groups are there so that people of the same interests can share opinions
> and ideas.  Cross posting (cross posing?) like what you did is done SOLELY
> to elicit an arguement.  You too need to grow up and stop getting your
> jollies from annoying people on the net.  To quote John Clease "There
> has to more to life than this!"

I have NEVER maintained that GnR are metal, I know what they say about
themselves. Very rational you are. Then you get on the cross-posing gnP shit
and expect me to listen to you? Posing and posers, to use it as you do, are
bands that try to be metal and people that try to say they like metal but
aren't and don't right? So if GnR isn;t metal, and I don;t say they are metal,
and you don't either, then you are using the word poser to reflect your view
of the group and your OPINION of their listeners. All of which has nothing to
do with it being metal, and all of which is EXACTLY my point. 

Thanks for digging your own hole, lying in it face down, AND handing me the
shovel. You are awfully nice to do all that, but I had you buried in the first
place.

If any bands and fans deserve the words POSER then it is Metallica, or some
other sold-out, hard rock band that pretends to be, and whose fans pretend it
is, metal. Right? 

> 
> -Jason
> --
> "One day I'll get what's mine through the persistence of time"
> 						    -Anthrax 'Time'
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