On Mon, 23 Feb 2009 16:37:33 EST, "clipka" <nomail@nomail> wrote:

>> In my youth I liked Scottish and Irish folk music a lot. I don't know if you
>> have heard of  The Dubliners,
>
>Sure - didn't mention them because I guess they're probably the best-known Irish
>folk band of all.
>

Fairy 'Nuff ;)

>> The Clancy Brothers
>
>I guess I heard the name, but that's about it.
>

Think Arran jumpers :)

>> Tommy Makem,
>
>Doesn't ring a bell.
>

He played with the Clancy Brothers for a while.

>> The Chieftains,
>
>Good, but not exactly my taste, mostly. Too much on the pop side.
>

They must have changed since I moved on to clasical.

>> Hamish Imlach, Corrie Folk Trio and Paddie Bell,
>
>Never heard any of those.
>

I'm surprised as the Corries were very big. They sang "The flower of Scotland"
which is the de facto national anthem of Scotland, at least at sport matches.

>> Capercaillie etc.
>
>Didn't I mention them myself? Whoops...
>

So you did. Whoops!

>> >Anyone remember Peter, Paul and Mary?
>>
>> Afraid so :)
>
>Don't like them? I really love the traditional songs they performed.
>

Too Anglo Saxon, for my tastes.

>> Have you listened to the Soweto String Quartet?
>
>Not yet.

The only non classical CDs I've bought recently. 
-- 

Regards
     Stephen

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On Mon, 23 Feb 2009 22:10:35 +0000, Stephen wrote:

>>> The Chieftains,
>>
>>Good, but not exactly my taste, mostly. Too much on the pop side.
>>
>>
> They must have changed since I moved on to clasical.

We got to seem them a few years ago in concert here in Utah - thought it 
was great (the seats kinda sucked, though - nosebleed section at he 
front, looking practically straight down on the stage).

Jim

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Invisible wrote:
> Warp seems to access the Internet only to tell me I've mis-spelt things.
> (As if I couldn't have guessed that. My inability to spell is legend.)
> To be honest, that doesn't really bother me. Mostly.

When someone tells you you misspelt something, take it as a compliment:
that's the only mistake he could find with your post; nothing in the actual
contents :P

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Invisible wrote:
>> And of course, you can access a web-based forum from any machine without
>> having to install a client (although POV has a web interface for its
>> NNTP server).
> 
> People were quick to point out that the Haskell mailing list can be
> accessed through "gmane", which is web-based. So that makes it OK,
> doesn't it?

Dude, gmane is NNTP, that's its purpose.

And also has a web interface for those who want it.

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On Fri, 20 Feb 2009 10:03:40 +0000, Invisible wrote:

> OK. I've never seen that on any web forum, ever. All of the web forums
> I've seen are like NNTP, but more primitive. (E.g., messages are
> "threaded", but purely in the order the messages were posted. You can't
> have branching threads, for example.)

Any site that uses vBulletin for their forums would disagree with you....

And that's an awful lot of web-based forums.

Jim

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