While there's usually a fair amount of talk about Uri Caine on this list, I have seen little (if any mention) of this release. What do y'all think of it?
Skip Heller
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Date: Mon, 29 Nov 1999 20:09:29 -0600 (CST)
From: Whit Schonbein <whit@twinearth.wustl.edu>
Subject: usenet
the usenet is basically a big internet-wide message board. it's been
around since 1979. basically, different people (often universities) have
machines that serve as newsservers. from what i gather, any given news
server will have a bunch of messages from whatever news groups (topic
areas) it takes messages from. to access the usenet, you'll need access
to a news server, and then you'll need a program to read the articles
(Netscape used to do this; i still use unix and linux, so i don't know).
so suppose i use news server X to get messages. i can respond to a
message i read, and it gets sent to my server (X), and X then passes the
message along. After a while, every news server on the planet that
accepts messages from that group will have my message available for other
people to read.
there are thousands of different news groups with names like
rec.music.bluenote (jazz and blues discussion), alt.binaries.porn.teen.xxx
(guess), and so forth. once you have access to a news server and a
program to read articles, you can subscribe (and unsubscribe) to whatever
groups your news server carries.
a while back someone figured out how to post non-text information to news
groups (basically by converting it into text - new newsreaders will
decode it automagically). this allowed for the posting of pictures, music
(mp3s) and programs.
so what some people here are saying is that there is a usenet newsgroup
to which some kind soul is posting mp3s of live shows of music we all
enjoy. the problem is those of us that don't have access to this
particular news group all turn green with jealousy (myself included,
seeing as the only live music trades i can seem to find these days are
classic rock and 'jam bands', neither of which are very enticing).
anyway, there's a primer of sorts on the usenet at