On 2016-12-22 11:29:23 -0500, Rich said:
> On Thu, 22 Dec 2016 09:28:26 -0600, Bismarck <bnwink@hotmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I am an old hippie. I buy or borrow music and I post it with headers
>> explaining what it is so everyone can understand. I hate MP3 unless there is
>> no CD or lossless option. I have expanded my collection of rock, blues, jazz&
>> country because other folks with the same philosophy have so generously
>> shared of their time and collections.
>>
>> I am in the beginning of a thought process to cancel my NG subscription.
>>
>> Despite the availability of CDs and high quality lossless formats for sale, a
>> generation is letting itself be content with MP3 ownership, or worse,
>> streaming content only. Ownership of music no longer seems to matter. Bodes
>> poorly for NGs.
>>
>> Then there is a new generation of poster that has replaced the password
>> crowd, and this new crew posts with undecipherable headers. They have turned
>> some NGs into their own little private servers. Only they and the privileged
>> with whom they share their secret decoder rings know what is being posted.
>> will die when the rest of us go away.
>>
>> As of today I still continue to maintain my NG subscription and I will
>> continue to post and download. I hope the like-minded will continue also.
>>
>> the music die.
>>
>> Bismarck
>
> Greetings Bismarck and a happy holiday season to you.
>
> Mostly agree with your assessment due the condition of newsgroups. You
> and many others have contributed greatly to the proliferation of these
> groups and I thank you.
> It does seem the binary groups are slowly dying, this is unfortunate.
> I have also noticed that many youngsters don't care for the quality of
> music as they appear to be content with poor quality compressed files
> and tiny blue tooth speakers. The only quality concern seems to be the
> amount of gain in the production and how loudly it can be played with
> minimal investment.
> Don't even get me started on auto-tune...
>
> Hopefully us *old hippies* will continue to lead the way around
> quality production while enjoying our music thorough high fidelity,
> highly tuned audio equipment. Perhaps some *kids* will be influenced
> enough to keep this resource alive.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Rich
To paraphrase an old 19th century hippy when his obituary was printed
in error: "The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated."
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