"Every Home Is Wired": 3 -- The Progressive Rock Community on the Net

"Every Home Is Wired":
3 -- The Progressive Rock Community on the Net

The amount of meaningful crossposting⁷ between related groups, then, is also a sign of subcultural structures: that a significant portion of alt.music.yes posts are crossposted to rec.music.progressive thus indicates how central to Prog Yes still appears to its fans. It may also demonstrate that due to the high involvement of the various past and present Yes members in other Prog bands Yes fans have a relatively broad interest in Progressive Rock -- there are, notably, only very few crossposts between r.m.p and alt.music.pink-floyd (a band whose members have largely stuck to themselves, and whose current music is seen as only mildly Proggy), or alt.fan.frank-zappa (much of whose work can be construed as Prog, but whose prolific output demands, if not a genre, then a sub-genre of its own).	Bit 18
For all the varying degrees of relation between the different Prog-related newsgroups, their various placement in both the rec.* and alt.* hierarchies should not be seen as much more than an accident of Net history: many alt.* groups remain there simply for reasons of convenience, the only difference being, perhaps, a slightly less 'official' nature.⁸ Mailing-lists, on the other hand, are often on the other end of the 'officiality' scale. As email-distributed discussion groups to which users have to request subscription by email, they are less immediately accessible and thus appear more exclusive, and so often gain a higher prestige than newsgroups. Many are also moderated (edited more or less strictly by an administrator who screens out flames, false claims, endlessly repeated information, or 'off-topic' posts, potentially raising the quality of discussion), and can offer special content: contrary to the free-for-all, internally unstructured newsgroups, mailing-lists, moderated or not, have central organisers, who frequently receive information directly from the artists, or even conduct exclusive interviews. The presence of such editors also allows artists themselves to participate in the mailing-lists without necessarily revealing their email details to all readers -- an obvious benefit for musicians with a strong and highly dedicated fan base.	Bit 19

The amount of meaningful crossposting⁷ between related groups, then, is also a sign of subcultural structures: that a significant portion of alt.music.yes posts are crossposted to rec.music.progressive thus indicates how central to Prog Yes still appears to its fans. It may also demonstrate that due to the high involvement of the various past and present Yes members in other Prog bands Yes fans have a relatively broad interest in Progressive Rock -- there are, notably, only very few crossposts between r.m.p and alt.music.pink-floyd (a band whose members have largely stuck to themselves, and whose current music is seen as only mildly Proggy), or alt.fan.frank-zappa (much of whose work can be construed as Prog, but whose prolific output demands, if not a genre, then a sub-genre of its own).

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For all the varying degrees of relation between the different Prog-related newsgroups, their various placement in both the rec.* and alt.* hierarchies should not be seen as much more than an accident of Net history: many alt.* groups remain there simply for reasons of convenience, the only difference being, perhaps, a slightly less 'official' nature.⁸ Mailing-lists, on the other hand, are often on the other end of the 'officiality' scale. As email-distributed discussion groups to which users have to request subscription by email, they are less immediately accessible and thus appear more exclusive, and so often gain a higher prestige than newsgroups. Many are also moderated (edited more or less strictly by an administrator who screens out flames, false claims, endlessly repeated information, or 'off-topic' posts, potentially raising the quality of discussion), and can offer special content: contrary to the free-for-all, internally unstructured newsgroups, mailing-lists, moderated or not, have central organisers, who frequently receive information directly from the artists, or even conduct exclusive interviews. The presence of such editors also allows artists themselves to participate in the mailing-lists without necessarily revealing their email details to all readers -- an obvious benefit for musicians with a strong and highly dedicated fan base.

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