Re: [ARSCLIST] ruminations on the ARSClist-was: message board vs. listserv

[stevenc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "George Brock-Nannestad" <pattac@xxxxxxxx>
> I shall not bore you with the statistics of posting, but 10,000 is a
> reasonable number for this purpose, I assure you. I do not yet know
precisely
> what the list "project-gramophone" was all about, but possibly it was
> catering for specialist interests that would be too tedious for most of
the
> ARSClist to read about. And it may also have been a political issue with
> getting some collector to open up. The 336 messages on that list should
> probably be read in context to find out, but life is too short.
>
"Project-Gramophone" was originated by Jon Noring, who wanted
to create an entity containing (in theory) sound-file copies
of every 78rpm record (I think there was a farward cutoff
date, possibly the AFM ban) as well as a discographic database
containing such information on every (or as close as possible)
78rpm record in existence. Of course, there was some question
as to whether the sound-file archive could be made accessible
given US copyright laws and the attitudes of the recording
industry today.

I still feel this would be a useful archive, although whether
it could be created becomes a serious question of impracticability!

Steven C. Barr