62 How did rec.music.progressive start?
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This article is from the Progressive Music FAQ, by Phil Kime(Philip@kime.org.uk) with numerous contributions by others.
62 How did rec.music.progressive start?
Discussions of progressive music used to occasionally happen
on newsgroups like alt.rock-n-roll and rec.music.misc, and on
mailing lists like Gibraltar as well as others dedicated to specific
artist. In mid-1992, Scott McMahan started alt.music.progressiveand
gradually a number of people wandered in and started offering
reviews of new and old music in this genre and a helping hand to
new and old fans of progressive music interested in broadening
their musical horizons. With the general degeneration of the alt.*
heirachy coupled with its limited distribution, rec.music.progressive
was proposed and passed its CFV on May 2nd 1995.
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