From: artis@nospamplease.net.invalid   
      
   "McPeart"  wrote in message   
   news:080520111232469024%mrf@mac.com...   
   > In article , Max C. Webster III   
   >  wrote:   
   >   
   >> "Dr. Charles Dutton"  done said:   
   >>   
   >> > "Artisan"  wrote:   
   >> >   
   >> >> Is this newsgroup for the music of the power-pop trio, or the big fat   
   >> >> guy   
   >> >> on   
   >> >> talk radio?   
   >> >>   
   >> >> Just saying... with all the fascist talk here, people appear to think   
   >> >> this   
   >> >> newsgroup is about Limbaugh.   
   >> >   
   >> > Yes, there are quite a few right wing nut jobs here.  About 90% of the   
   >> > NG.   
   >> > Better to just find a better forum.   
   >>   
   >>   
   >> From the time of Neil's tragedies, this forum ceased to be so much a Rush   
   >> forum   
   >> as it was a forum for Rush fans.  Rush was the thing we had in common,   
   >> but   
   >> since everything had been talked about a bazillion times over, we started   
   >> talking about other things.  Prof was said AMR was primarily about two   
   >> things:   
   >> 1) A conversation amongst Rush fans, just not necessarily about Rush, and   
   >> 2)   
   >> ignoring Libby.   
   >>   
   >> Since we weren't all Rush all the time, and there were forums that   
   >> catered to   
   >> those who wanted that, we became the red-headed stepchild of Rush groups,   
   >> and   
   >> quite frankly, we liked it like that.  Stereotypical Rush fans kinda   
   >> scare us.   
   >>   
   >> When facebook took off, and we realized we could do the same thing there   
   >> we   
   >> were doing here, but with pictures and other gewgaws, AMR started   
   >> circling   
   >> the   
   >> drain.  We're still here, checking in from time to time, but it's most   
   >> the   
   >> schizophrenic ranting of Libby or the bombastic political rants of a few   
   >> maladjusted nuts.   
   >>   
   >> So yes, this for is for the "power-pop trio," not the "big fat guy," but   
   >> don't   
   >> expect to read to much about either here.  It's mostly noise these days.   
   >>   
   >> Sadder still to watch it die than never to have known it . . .   
   >>   
   >>   
   >>   
   >> - Max -   
   >> =======   
   >> Facebook pics are OK and all,   
   >> but somehow that one in the   
   >> Hawaiian shirt with the cocktail   
   >> just isn't doing it for me.   
   >>   
   >>   
   >   
   > Facebook killed AMR, one of the reasons I am not on there anymore.   
   > You really can't do the same thing on FB because your around other   
   > common folks who don't get it.  The cool thing about AMR was that for   
   > the most part only fans were here not all of our other friends a family   
   > as well.   
   >   
   > What a sad loss...   
      
   Hmm.   
      
   "Usenet killed the Rush fandom, one of the reasons I am not on Usenet   
   anymore.  You really can't do the same thing on Usenet because   
   [y-o-u-fecking-apostrophe-r-e] around other common folks who don't get   
   it"...   
      
   --Make no mistake about it, there never has been any way to keep "outsiders"   
   out of a Usenet newsgroup.  AMR has suffered the same fate as many other   
   newsgroups, beseiged over the years by crossposters and noncrossposters   
   alike who have no interest in the music group whatsoever.   
      
   At the /very/ least, on Facebook you can choose to create a members-only   
   group and enforce it, as well as the good old "ignore user" feature that you   
   can just set and forget.  For all the crap that FB gets, this is not one of   
   its weaknesses.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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