From: Rich Fromm 11-Dec-1992 1852 <fromm@rock.enet.dec.com>
Subject: assorted stuph
Reply-To: fromm@rock.enet.dec.com
Organization: The Internet
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 23:52:37 GMT

Michael Formica <IQM334@uriacc.uri.edu> writes:

|  I was just wondering what the Deal is with the Spin Doctors.
|Do Phish hate them as much as the rest of us?

please don't speak for all of "the rest of us"; i'm not too familiar with the
Spin Doctors, but i did like the little bit of them that i caught at the show at
the Boston Garden, and I'll probably go check out a show of theirs next time
they're around

i hate to seem that i'm telling other people what to post and what not to post,
but is it really necessary to continue theads like "phish is better than the
dead", "phish is better than the spin doctors", "phish is better than sex" (ok,
so we haven't yet seen that one), etc.?  perhaps it's possible to have diverse
musical tastes and recognize that people who listen to phish may also listen to
other artists?

recognizing that phish is evolving, and i may not get to see too
many more shows in places the size of the haunt, the campus club, the chestnut
cabaret, etc., i've been making it a point to check out a bunch of bands that
still do play clubs; i've recently seen Widespread Panic, Shockra, Omar Saeed
Quintet, and God Street Wine, and I hope to soon catch Hypnotic Clambake and the
Heavy Metal Horns; there's a lot of good music out there besides Phish - go look
for it!  and just as there are electronic forums to discuss the dead (hence my
plea to keep dead info off of r.m.phish), there are electronic forums for other
music too; two that I am on are the Horde mailing list (horde@world.std.com) and
the Boston-Music mailing list (Boston-Music@fuggles.acc.Virginia.edu); i believe
that you sent mail to horde-request and Boston-Music-request to get on the
respective lists

my guess is that Phish doesn't hate the Spin Doctors, but was just poking fun at
them

shell@mole.Berkeley.EDU (Shelly Culbertson) writes:

|Rich, let's edit the paragraph slightly to reflect the
|fact that phish-request@fuggles.acc.virginia.edu is the service address for
|*additions to and deletions from the digestified mailing list*.

sorry; jeff maggard already pointed out that mistake to me; my short text file
has been correctly updated, and will soon be automatically posted weekly to the
net

shelly also writes:

|Here's an idea -- I think it would be only courteous for *all* ticket
|request messages to include something like "ticket grovel" in the 
|subject line.

i've been thinking about what could be done to help handle the vast increase
in the amount net traffic; what i've seen done on other lists (ok, one list) is
to adopt a series of categories, each with a one or two word keyword, and
request that people place this word in all caps as the first word of subject
lines; we could have categories like:

TICKET GROVEL:	(maybe combine these all into TICKET)
TICKET TRADE:
TICKET INFO:
TOUR INFO:
TAPE GROVEL:	(maybe combine these all into TAPE)
TAPE TRADE:
TAPE TREE:
SETLIST:
REVIEW:
INTERVIEW:
TAPING:		(like technical info, advice on models, etc.)
STORY:
NET GATHERING:
DIRECTIONS:
ARTICLE:	(like something copied from a newspaper or magazine)

and whatever - this isn't meant to be a complete list; i think you get the
idea...; yeah, we could never get everybody to follow it, but the more people
that do follow it, the easier it would be for people to keep up with the net

- rich