Path: news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!i2pn.org!i2pn2.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail
From: will.dockery@gmail.com (W.Dockery)
Newsgroups: alt.arts.poetry.comments,rec.arts.poems
Subject: Re: "Eldorado"-Edgar Allan Poe
Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2025 16:02:47 +0000
Organization: novaBBS
Message-ID: <2e9b27cc1391fff88a65d344e6f6a6da@www.novabbs.com>
References: <f9d92006-ff04-48ae-8bac-15c7f32128ddn@googlegroups.com> <c9882775-d551-4f28-a923-a5b1a31e5890n@googlegroups.com> <3fd62772-a7d1-45ef-9e0b-6a11e8c61d12n@googlegroups.com> <d24c7486-e654-4e18-81c2-45142835be67n@googlegroups.com> <686a7796-6bc5-4a1d-8590-ca5966964327n@googlegroups.com> <bffb1265-6439-4a08-af1b-d5ebed3b6889n@googlegroups.com> <eeafe7c113b4cd26b3a6deb57dac98b9@news.novabbs.com> <193bcb2a3351df7b493d565ce553f493@news.novabbs.com> <152e9cf5a69e33de44a1c3e15022b294@www.novabbs.com> <c83994c48fbb2ee4937061d113c5f424@www.novabbs.com> <7f351a9ab29f2523e4badd915a4e9345@www.novabbs.com> <cfe39820e69f2017642bbbd404135f80@www.novabbs.com> <5af07b3603973cf784f9c26a9d4ecc30@www.novabbs.com>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Injection-Info: i2pn2.org;
	logging-data="2822288"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@i2pn2.org";
	posting-account="Vf9CM7g99yqfGvzEHTw0bhrjcIfvzYBBhUuRma0rLuQ";
User-Agent: Rocksolid Light
X-Rslight-Site: $2y$10$/KDv8XTV3duWeqZf6/nsL.9SZAnZV.p6PkDlquQHwz6bPkSAfoLy2
X-Rslight-Posting-User: acd0b3e3614eaa6f47211734e4cbca3bfd42bebc
X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 4.0.0

On Wed, 5 Feb 2025 12:35:38 +0000, Retro Guy wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 5 Feb 2025 12:24:05 +0000, Will Dockery wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, 5 Feb 2025 12:12:05 +0000, Retro Guy wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Wed, 5 Feb 2025 5:08:10 +0000, Will Dockery wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Victor H. wrote:
>>>>>> jdcha...@gmail.com wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvyWmRtm5qU
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi JC, Poe is one of the great ones...
>>>>>
>>>>> Hopefully we can get a Usenet newsgroup set up for him:
>>>>>
>>>>> rec.arts.poe
>>>>>
>>>>> Retro Guy or JLA Forums administrator?
>>>>
>>>> Oops, I'll actually type something this time :)
>>>>
>>>> rec.arts.poe does not appear to be a Usenet Newsgroup. Maybe it was a
>>>> private google group. I don't know, but I don't see it as a Usenet
>>>> group.
>>>
>>> Thanks, Retro Guy.
>>>
>>> I know I'd never heard of a newsgroup devoted to all things Poe but it
>>> seems like it would probably have been somewhat popular in the heyday of
>>> Usenet.
>>>
>>> Something like alt.fsn.poe, as alt.fsn was all the rage back in the
>>> early days of the eternal September.
>>
>> I just did a search in my main news server's active file (where most, if
>> not all, text newsgroup names should exist. I searched for all groups
>> ending in '.poe':
>>
>> egrep -i '\.poe ' active
>> alt.music.poe 0000000000 0000000001 y
>> perl.poe 0000000000 0000000001 m
>>
>> That shows two groups, alt.music.poe and perl.poe, both contain no
>> messages. So currently, there does not appear to be such a group that I
>> can find.
>
> Yes, thanks.
>
> I really think it was a broken link to the Nova BBS version of
> alt.atts.poetry.comments.
>
> As for alt.mudic.poe, I seem to dimly remember a band in the early 1990s
> called Poe, but that's all I can remember about them.

Great, here's the band Poe back in 1996 with their song 'Angry Johnny":

https://youtu.be/VRjMu2RB-Vg?si=6f1Baa3i8G4EVnAY