At 09:16 AM 8/4/02 -0400, you wrote:
I remember the day audiogalaxy got shut down.
Suddenly Soulseek had a fiendishly huge amount of new users and lots of refugee Audiogalaxy channels. Big backlash.
Soulseek used to be a great community of people where you could find great quality music.
Everything on the Internet turns to brown fungus eventually. It's the closest the Net has to an immutable law, even moreso when it involves a service that starts off with a wee number of well-etiquetted people operating within accepted consensual boundaries which gets so big so quick that the spirit of the community gets flushed away like a wet turd. It happened to Usenet in the mid 1990s, for instance. Not nice to watch. 'Tappens, anyway. Me, i got the British version of Aubrey's 2 today and discovered a storming Orb track i hadn't come across before (the Nobel Prize Sentinel thingy), not to mention that Soulseeking has sucked away a lot of my monthly download priv, so i'm pretty equanimitous about things right now. Kwook www.kwookyworld.com The kwinkunx is imminent. "Australia is merely an island of Antarctica and of no further significance." -- Russell Guy, "What's Rangoon To You Is Grafton To Me"