Re: [microsound] confusion

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Thats the KC we want!

I was starting to leap out of microsound...

Hernan

www.cooptrol.com


>> i find it odd that we're not allowed to post news about new releases
>> on this board (a group based around MUSIC after all) but it's now day
>> after day of nothing but MySpace advertisements.....
>
> why? the three founders of this list (disclaimer: I am one of them)
> did not want it to turn into the fanboy/gear slut list that many
> others gravitate towards -- and this is why I moved all the people
> who contribute zilch but wanna hawk their wares to the 'microsound-
> announce' list...so you CAN post all your activities and CD's for
> sale to your hearts content - and you can cross-post ad nauseam...
>
> I don't see how someone forwarding a myspace link as being
> similar...albeit it does add a certain amount of noise to the list
> and detracts from any thoughtful discussion in and of itself...
>
> sharing music on the list is fine so long as it is not flagrant self-
> promotion -- as in: selling CD's, promoting concerts, calls for
> projects, etc. especially when done by those who contribute little/
> nothing to the list aesthetically/philosophically but don't mind
> using it as a poster kiosk for their activities...
>
> Announcing a myspace account is borderline promotion...but if someone
> were able to script something that would take an email with a myspace
> link embedded in it and update a web page with it - that would be
> much more useful than whining about elitists and such...
>
> and to the person who thinks myspace is a free market-driven
> meritocracy: you're kidding, right?
>
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