hello. well, i'm not really too sure about how to start this, it being my first post. i'm not sure this is the right time to be posting either, during the napster furore that seems to have taken over the list. in fact this mail will probably get caught up in the current and be washed downstream and lost. just a click of the 'next' button on everyone's screens. still 1400 clicks is quite a few. i have been out of the nursery a while now, but haven't yet had the courage to venture forth. while i was in the nursery i was chomping at the bit to get out because there were many tidbits from emails i liked and wanted to comment on. but rather like a squirrel with his or her nuts (whatever takes your fancy), i hid them away and seemed to forget where i put them. infact the only one i remember is something about richard whitely selling out, but that seems a bit pointless now. anyway, the reason i post today is what someone (sorry i forget who) said about being a 'letter snob'. i have to confess to being one too. there is something special about a letter. maybe it's the fact that the person who wrote it has physically touched it, or that they breathed on it. i don't know. but they cetainly have something that emails don't. and i'm not saying that email isn't good, it's great, i mean we wouldn't have the list without it. horses for courses. as for napster i'm not really qualified to say. my connection at home is far too slow to make it worthwhile downloading lots and lots, and usually i get disconnected before it's finished. with most music i like sitting on a bench (i have a thing about benches) and listening to it through headphones, which i can't really do with a desktop. but i do hate the idea of music 'snobbery' too. i have, at best, a mediocre music collection and love it when i come across something new and exciting and if napster helps more people to do that then great. but, rather like the letters v. emails above, i hope it doesn't put and end to mix tapes. i don't have an awful lot of them either, but again there is something more personal about them. knowing and expecting where in the tape there is a gap, a certain noise, the sound of someone pressing the record button, the end of the side. lovely. i know there was more things i would have liked to say, but i won't. cheerio, chris. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the undead Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister@missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo@missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "peculiarly deranged fanbase" "frighteningly named +-+ +-+ Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+