From: bparrish@hpcc01.corp.hp.com (William Parrish)
Newsgroups: news.groups
Subject: rec.music.synth (again)
Date: 11 Nov 92 01:11:57 GMT
Organization: the HP Corporate notes server


Another netnews reader suggested I crosspost this to news.groups due
to some points that had not been mentioned elsewhere...

This is regarding the upcoming renaming of rec.music.synth.

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On one system here which has a long expiration period, I was able to find
all THREE CFVs on this.  

A couple of points...

(1) One person said that if a CFV appears in this group, that it affects
this group... not so... there are also a couple of CFVs in the non-expired
stuff that is for REC.MUSIC.REGGAE (I think that's spelled right).

(2)  The CFVs on this group were probably valid... but the thing about
rec.music.synth was tacked at the end of SEVERAL changes proposed by
a single CFV.  To be honest, I'd seen the titles go by, read the first
page (on one of our default-sized screens which are only 23 lines long
or so) and thought that this one seems to deal with percussion and
guitars, and ignored the whole thing.  I would have voted against
the changes IF I'd READ THE WHOLE THING.    It starts off talking
about the alt. heirarchy... and it isn't until you're half way through
that you know what's going on.  (This sort of thing goes on in 
Congress all the time from what I understand... although in this
case I don't see any evidence of underhanded motives... :-))

I'll be able to live with the name change... but I think that in this
case, it was difficult to tell what was going on TO THIS GROUP without
carefully reading the whole thing... and it probably should have been 
spelled out clearer exactly what was happening TO THIS GROUP (rec.music
.synth).

There seems to be enough discussion about the CFV for a copy of the 
thing to be reposted... so I've attached it, with careted (?) indent.

Bill Parrish


>Subject: Final CFV and VOTE ACK: rec.music.makers.* groups
>
>Introduction: There are several newsgroups in the alt.* hierarchy which
>are utilized for the discussion of various musical instruments.  The traffic
>in these groups and the degree of participation from posters to the
>rec.music.* groups indicate that it might be time to consider shifting
>these groups to rec.music.makers, creating another group, and renaming
>an existing group.  Extensive discussion on these topics has resulted
>in three draft proposals, of which this is the most recent.
>
>Proposal A: Create rec.music.makers.guitar.
>Charter: "Electric and acoustic guitar techniques and equipment"
>
>Proposal B: Create rec.music.makers.bass.
>Charter: "Upright bass and bass guitar techniques and equipment"
>
>Proposal C: Create rec.music.makers.guitar.tablature.
>Charter: "Guitar tablature/chords, associated discussion and requests".
> 
>Proposal D: Create rec.music.makers.percussion.
>Charter: "Percussion (including drums) techniques and equipment"
>
>Proposal E: Rename rec.music.synth to rec.music.makers.synth
>Charter: "Synthesizers and computer music"  [UNCHANGED FROM CURRENT]
>
>If proposal A passes, it is anticipated that alt.guitar will be removed.
>If proposal B passes, it is anticipated that alt.bass will be removed.
>If proposal C passes, it is anticipated that alt.guitar.tab will be removed.
>
>How to vote:
>
>1. Reply to this article, LEAVING THE SUBJECT LINE UNCHANGED.  (Don't
>worry about the "Re:" that gets prepended, it won't matter.)
>
>2. The "To:" address should automatically be set up to read
>"rsk@gynko.circ.upenn.edu" by your news-reading software.
>(If not, adjust the "To:" line.)
>
>3. Mark the following form with your vote, replacing the leading "-" with
>Y for yes, N for no, or A for abstain.  You may vote on any combination
>of proposals that you wish.
>
>-	Proposal A: Create rec.music.makers.guitar.
>-	Proposal B: Create rec.music.makers.bass.
>-	Proposal C: Create rec.music.makers.guitar.tablature.
>-	Proposal D: Create rec.music.makers.percussion.
>-	Proposal E: Rename rec.music.synth to rec.music.makers.synth
>
>4. Send the message.  Please note that your vote will be processed by
>a program, so any extraneous text which you include will not be read
>by a human being, and may confuse the program.
>
>The voting period will commence Monday, September 28, 1992, and end
>Monday, October 26, 1992.  Please be careful to mail (not post) your votes.
>
>Votes have been received from the following people (the list has
>been sorted by the "From:" line):
>

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