"Every Home Is Wired":
3 -- The Progressive Rock Community on the Net
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The heterogeneity of the topics covered by the newsgroups is also lived out in the participant community itself: as Prog subdivides into a number of more or less distinct sub-genres, so do the newsgroup users align themselves more or less strictly with the various styles, or position themselves as fans of individual bands (which may in turn be central to particular sub-genres). Alt.music.yes participants are loosely subdivided into 'factions' -- 'Troopers', 'Generators', 'Panthers', and 'Universalists' -- that favour particular periods of the band's output, and are named generally after particular albums and songs (as described in the alt.music.yes FAQ). The more band-based such identifications are, the more likely are participants to post in individual band newsgroups and mailing-lists instead of r.m.p; some of these, indeed, were formed to remove purely band-related discussion with little interest for the wider community from the more general newsgroup rec.music.progressive. Thus, Bit 10
discussion on r.m.p usually focusses on the lesser known progressive bands. While Yes, Genesis, ELP, King Crimson, and the like will always have a home on r.m.p, they also have their own mailing lists ... . ... The purpose of this newsgroup is to explore a wide variety of progressive music, rather than trying to learn the most trivial facts about a few examples. Also, the most knowledgeable people on each specific example will almost certainly read the respective mailing lists, but may not read r.m.p.

(Kime, "rec.music.progressive Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ), Part 1/8")

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