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From: robertjroman@gmail.com (BobRoman)
Newsgroups: rec.music.rock-pop-r+b.1950s
Subject: Re: Off Topic
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2025 02:40:02 +0000
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On Sat, 22 Mar 2025 19:07:36 +0000, DianeE wrote:

> This group is about music from 1946 through 1963, and flooding it with
> posts about music from 1964 is annoying.  Even though I love 1960s
> music, and even though the group that was established to discuss it is
> dead, it still doesn't belong here.  Unless we all vote to include it? I
> don't know.

I'm not really an active member here anymore, so I don't think I have a
vote. But I will offer a thought.

I think we have all known each other too long to have "rules" about what
we can say. The point of rules is establishing a culture, and no
newcomers are coming in who will need to have the group explained to
them.

Perhaps, after 30+ years, we are seeing a tendency for our conversation
topics to spread. But there will also be a countervailing tendency, that
the topics we all have in common -- the topics that bought us here --
will always end up being the most fruitful.

The two opposing tendencies will find an equilibrium. Trust where
equilibrium lands.

--
BR