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This article is from the Progressive Music FAQ, by Phil Kime(Philip@kime.org.uk) with numerous contributions by others.

01 Welcome to rec.music.progressive

rec.music.progressive passed its CFV on 2nd May 1995. It is the
successor of alt.music.progressive and supersedes it. Being a rec.*
group, it has much wider distribution than a.m.p had and is aimed
at generating and disseminating discussion of progressive and
non-mainstream music with a wider audience than was previously the
case. The FAQs have been registered with news.answers and thus are
"official" in the only real sense of the word applicable to FAQs.

This FAQ is an introduction intended to give some idea of the scope
of discussions that the group supports. It attempts to present
a relatively uncontroversial and illuminating picture of what is
meant by the term "progressive music" as commonly understood in
the group. Ideally, you should read this in conjunction with FAQ 4.

It is recommended that people new to non-mainstream music read
this FAQ along with FAQ 4 before posting the perennial question
"What is progressive music?" ...

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