[kj] OT: Where punk started

[Mik]

But if nobody says lol, how is the poster going to know that someone found
it funny?

 

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From: gathering-bounces at misera.net [mailto:gathering-bounces at misera.net] On
Behalf Of nicholas fitzpatrick
Sent: 25 February 2008 20:56
To: A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!)
Subject: [kj] OT: Where punk started

 

Look, for God's sake, punk started in the UK. I've been on the Gathering
since 1998, and in all that time, punk has always started in the UK.
 
End this argument now, because it is stupid time-wasting posts like this one
I'm writing that get in the way of other people who have much better posts
to write, particularly those people who write in saying things like "LOL"
and nothing else whatsoever in the very same post. 
 
 
 

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From: vassifer at earthlink.net
To: gathering at misera.net
Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2008 06:56:00 -0500
Subject: Re: [kj] ) OT I love you to everyone...

At least discussing the origins of Punk has *FUCKING SOMETHING TO DO WITH
THE IMPETUS OF THIS LIST*

 

Alex in NYC

 

 

 

On Feb 25, 2008, at 2:28 AM, Brendan Quinn wrote:

 

Yeah, how many times do we have to hear who started punk in the UK?
*Napoleon Dynamite: "GOSH!"*

 


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From: gathering-bounces at misera.net [mailto:gathering-bounces at misera.net] On
Behalf Of sade1
Sent: Monday, 25 February 2008 5:16 p.m.
To: A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!)
Subject: Re: [kj] ) OT I love you to everyone...

 

How can we know...

 

  I've been here since the 20th century ('98 or so..cassettes, glowsticks,
Dee-Lite,

raves, etc.) when Gatherers and gathering were over at UBL so I know for a
fact these

kinds of shenanigans and inanity have always (& in all ways) existed here,
both read

and written by everyone here,** and rarely ( as in, rarely) did anyone
really object, even

when it got bad (racism, personal attacks, pro-Bush opinions, etc.)...

 

...and, it's hard (next to impossible,really) to tell when some thread will
go off and really

stray - until way after it's done so, so:

   where can we draw The Line? that is, without intimidating creative and
free speech. Hm..

..how can we (individually) predict the future quality and future trajectory
of a given thread?

Hm...  I don't know.

 

(and no i haven't forgotten that the number of Jokers here has at least
tripled since KJ-2003,

and that more and more people are accessing their internetss on the go thru
laptops,

cellphones, computers at work, Blackberrys, etc.)

 

  Something I find does work for me is that if i can trust the message
titles to be in tune

with the message, if people properly title their messages and change or add
to that title as

the subject/s of the messages change, then we can all feel confident in
deleting [on sight]

a thread of no interest.

  For example, I personally don't care about the "btats remasters" so i
delete entire threads

of it [no offense to those who do care for btats remasters], and when a
title reflects a change

in subject, that also helps me decide to read or delete.

 

  Also, and this is a long long shot, maybe if the board can be reformatted
to show individual postings in sequential order, would that help? Because
recently i've been getting lots of messages hours or even days after
someone's posted it, or messages are posted twice (no not just Mel's).

 

Anyway, my two cents' worth.

 

** how many frekqin' times do we 

   have to hear who started punk where?

   I rest my case.
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"T.B." <Partyslammer at socal.rr.com> wrote:

"jo" wrote:


> Aw don't inhibit people. It's cool to 'hear' Gatherers speaking freely.


I have to chime in. Quick back n' forth nonsensical stuff like 95% of 
what's shown up here the past few days here really belong in someplace like 
IRC or some chat room. I'm all for off-topic posts but after 50+ 
one-sentence messages in a couple hour's time, it just becomes wasted 
bandwidth. I get all my mail mirrored on my Blackberry and it's a fucking 
pain in the ass to have to individually delete hundreds of useless posts 
that accumulate in just a day's time. And I'm sure I'm not the only 
subscriber that storing, deleting and sifting through junk e-mail is more 
than a simple matter of "skip what you don't want to read."

Think of it as a simple courtesy to your fellow list members.



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And the angels eat their grapes
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visit the planet of the apes

 


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