I probably should have been more specific, Cyclone -- I was referring to your apparently favorable comment -- "some interesting points" -- but it's really the comments you quoted from the other email I was disagreeing with.
I'm a pretty strong defender of 313 because it has kept going for years and years while all the other lists I joined way back when ended up sinking into a foul pit of flames and idiocy. It was almost exactly ten years ago this month that the legendary "go away Moby" thread was starting up on ne-raves; a couple years later, ne-raves lost its really unique camaraderie and became a toxic swamp of screeching about how hardcore was by far the best form of music ever made, or something. dc-raves, socal-raves, nw-raves, mw-raves, even my beloved sfraves -- all were sunk by the tragedy of write-only loudmouths. Some managed to recover and continue in reasonable fashion, but the people I knew from those lists long since disappeared, like leaving a favorite corner pub because the bar fights went from occasional distraction to ongoing nuisance. Among the public "*ave" lists I joined way back when, the honorable survivors are 313 and uk-dance. As for doing a searchable index of the 313 archives, Hyperreal is a volunteer-run system and would welcome someone coming along to hook up a bit of this and a bit of that and do it. As we always say, it's an SMOP -- simple matter of programming. phred
