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

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

Individual Newsgroups and Mailing-Lists
The channelling of Prog-related traffic into various interlinked newsgroups is also related to other trends we have seen in the subculture: centrally, the division into r.m.p and a variety of band-based groups mirrors the spectrum from Prog 'cosmopolitans', interested in a wide range of music, to 'localists', who focus on a specific band, period or sub-genre only. Hannerz points out that "for the cosmopolitans, ... there is value in diversity as such, but they are not likely to get it ... unless other people are allowed to carve out special niches for their cultures, and keep them. ... There can be no cosmopolitans without locals" (250), and thus the cosmopolitans of r.m.p depend on the willingness of the more traditionalist or 'localist' of Yes fans to confine themselves to alt.music.yes, for example.⁶	Bit 15
The problem that Hannerz speaks of a spectrum between these extremes, while newsgroup divisions appear as a clear, binary distinction, is overcome with the help of crossposting: the posting of articles to a number of related newsgroups, so that users on both sides of the divide can participate. An excerpt from the r.m.p FAQ demonstrates this:	Bit 16

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