Re: [ARSCLIST] 78-L, was [ARSCLIST] obituary - Franz Jolowicz, Discophile NYC

[David Lennick <dlennick@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

78-L still bears more than a passing resemblance to the Knesset some days, and there's a
lot less discussion of classical content than some would like, but I still find it one
of the fastest tools for getting answers to questions about personnel on records,
recording dates and issue numbers and a wide range of other related information. More
recently, members have been encouraged to highlight rants and rambles with a ^ in the
subject line as a warning that off-topic material or smart alecky answers may be at hand
(and half the time, the answers that follow bring the discussion back into the fold,
even if nobody remembers to remove the carat from subsequent message headers).

Issues pertinent to ARSClist such as copyrights are among the common topics on 78-L,
along with battles over the effectiveness of certain discographies and certain online
repositories of knowledge. And I've generally found the ARSC Journal to place far more
emphasis on recordings, discographies, reviews and books than on the technical side of
things, although preservation and storage are also prime topics.

See you in Seattle...I may have to use my Amex points to get there.

dl

Peter Hirsch wrote:

> David,
>
> I tried 78-L 5 or 6 years ago and couldn't take the level of
> "discussion". It may be different now, but, at that time, there were one
> or two that had to comment on every damn thing and at great length,
> though the end result was not usually particularly illuminating. I
> suppose that my primary (though far from exclusive) area of interest is
> classical music may have made me an odd man out (at least it felt that
> way), but it just wasn't doing it for me and I signed off.
>
> I don't have the mandate for what is appropriate fodder for this list in
> front of me, but I just got the latest ARSC Journal and the articles
> seem to cover the gamut and not just the techno and political side of
> things. Maybe the organization and the list are not that closely
> related, but I would assume so.
>
> With luck (and hopefully a sympathetic employer) , I hope to be able to
> take up your invitation to head out to Seattle next spring.  I look
> forward to it.
>
> Regards,
>
> Peter