From: Kevin J. Bonham, sleepycat@eudoramail.com Subject: Re: Seance: where you hear it second Date: 2/23/2002 12:38:34 AM To: seance@lists.no-fi.com The reason I am on Seance and not yet on Hotel Womb is that this was where I started about five years ago, when I saw Seance advertised in the insert of MATS. I have looked at Hotel Womb and it looks very good, but I just haven't gone over there yet because the number of commitments in my life creates a great inertia about joining new forums that I might post heavily on. Also, email's cheaper for me. Maybe I will start showing up there as well one of these days though. I don't feel the comment about Seance as soap opera would *ever* have qualified as an informed comment in all the time I've been on this list. I've been on lists or newsgroups that are real online soap operas and this is just nowhere near qualifying. There is a fair amount of off-topic discussion and a little bit of "how my life is going" but it's nothing compared with the voyeuristic horrors of chat and LiveJournal for instance. I can see one good reason why the band would be more comfortable releasing info on a website than a mailing list. To post here they'd need to subscribe and that would mean everything would land in their mailbox. If I was SK or MWP I wouldn't want to read through all this stuff with people making often inaccurate comments about their opinions and the lyrics and meanings of their songs all the time - as an artist it would simply bug me and I'd find it hard not to contribute. However if they are not regularly reading Seance their opinions of what it is like are probably distorted. I also agree with Tara: if they're going to put this stuff on the web, how about on the official website? Surely it's there for a purpose? Cheers, Kevin. "Tara" wrote: >You know, I've thought long and hard about writing this post. It isn't my intention to start a big brouhaha. But this is bothering me and I want to get it off my chest. [..]> Cheers, Kevin PS A sentence was cut off my previous post - some kind of bizarre censorship, like my emailer telling me when I've waffled on too much already. It was: "To me, any critic who gives any of the really poppy stuff more than about three out of five is failing to encourage their audience to get the most out of music." --- Self-Appointed President, Oxydental Fan Club Join 18 million Eudora users by signing up for a free Eudora Web-Mail account at http://www.eudoramail.com