01 About The Newsgroup, and How to Get its Documents (rec.music.rem)
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This article is from the R.E.M. FAQ, by Ron Henry (rgh3@cornell.edu) with numerous contributions by others.
01 About The Newsgroup, and How to Get its Documents (rec.music.rem)
An R.E.M. Internet e-mail list first began in Feb. 1990 as a part of
Project Athena at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In July of
1993, it moved to Lynchburg College in Virginia; then, due to the
ever-increasing volume of Internet interest in the band, and the resulting
unmanagability of the volume of postings to the list, the Murmur list was
discontinued and replaced by a Usenet newsgroup. On March 28, 1994,
"rec.music.rem" was created, after winning a landslide voter approval (789
to 241). Consequently, the MURMUR e-mail list is no longer available.
However, the most recently updated version of the full FAQ can be obtained
by:
* WWW browser to http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/8789/remfaq.htm; or
* emailing me, Ron Henry, to request it (text version only); or
* when it is occasionally posted to Usenet newsgroups rec.music.rem,
rec.answers, and news.answers.
Lyrics to all of R.E.M.'s albums can be gotten via the Web at Kipp's
Retroweb page, http://www.retroweb.com/remlyrics.html (Note: Kipp's
files are the consensus lyrics worked out by members of the Murmur
mailing list and rec.music.rem over the years. You may not agree
with all of them, but keep in mind that many people have worked
very hard to make them as accurate as is humanly possible, so do
give them the benefit of the doubt. (I also maintain an alternate set of
lyrics files here which you may or may not care about.)
For those wondering about specific references in the lyrics,
Chris Piuma has compiled the R.E.M. Lyrics Annotations FAQ at
http://www.brainlink.com/~cafard/remlafaq.html.
Several specialized supplements to the regular FAQ document have been
prepared (email me for copies if interested):
* Collected posts and responses to Michael Stipe's on-line sessions
August 1995;
* The "Real People in R.E.M. Songs" list, compiled by Gary Nabors,
author of the book Remnants;
* List of REM videos with directors and brief descriptions;
* Multi-part index to Gray's R.E.M. reference book It Crawled from the
South (1st ed., 1993), compiled by Cindy Donlin;
* The Band Members' Illness FAQ, which summarizes Bill Berry, Mike
Mills, and Michael Stipe's surgeries during the World Tour 95;
* "Lame Postings to the Newsgroup and How to Cope" article to help
readers face the insanity that is Usenet;
* Mini-FAQ of information about the album New Adventures in Hi-Fi;
* Transcript of Michael Stipe on the AOL Webstock forum;
* R.E.M. Monster World Tour FAQ;
* R.E.M. Monster World Tour Setlists statistics, compiled by Martin
Hoyt;
To comment on or make a suggestion for the FAQ-lists, send email to me
(rgh3@cornell.edu).
Enjoy rec.music.rem!
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