Public Domain

[Tim Coates]

Yes the PTG.   Isn't your committee the controlling body of this 
listserve and  represents the PTG?  So you have interest to change all 
this?  What are your plans?  I have been dismissed before with the 
feeling that this is the way it is and that's that about the state of 
our listserves.

Dave, I think I've told you before (correct me if I'm wrong) in private 
emails that this forum and the other one (I think it's called Pianotech 
or something like that) should not be public or at least controlled by 
a moderator.  Being public they represent the PTG because the PTG is 
sponsoring them.   The PTG should be putting it's best foot forward to 
the public and many of the discussions do no such thing for the PTG.  
People have flame wars that make technicians look rude and narrow 
minded.  I don't think that does our organization any good to have that 
stuff out there for the public.  There are details discussed such as 
what started this discussion that don't look good to the outsider.

Tim Coates
University of South Dakota
University of Sioux Falls


On Mar 13, 2004, at 7:21 PM, David M. Porritt wrote:

> Tim:
>
> PTG who?  Where did you get that idea?  As co-chair of the Electronic 
> Communications Committee I'd like to know from whom you got that idea.
>
> dave
>
>
> __________________________________________
> David M. Porritt, RPT
> Meadows School of the Arts
> Southern Methodist University
> Dallas, TX 75275
>
>
> ----- Original message ---------------------------------------->
> From: Tim Coates <tcoates1@sio.midco.net>
> To: College and University Technicians <caut@ptg.org>
> Received: Sat, 13 Mar 2004 17:53:56 -0600
> Subject: Re: Public Domain
>
>> Susan,
>
>> It won't happen.  The PTG seems bent on making all this public.
>
>> Tim Coates
>> University of South Dakota
>> University of Sioux Falls
>
>
>>  On Mar 13, 2004, at 2:52 PM, Susan Kline wrote:
>
>>> This is a valid issue -- as we talk about embarrassments with
>>> customers,
>>> vandalism and security measures, our departments' budget
>>> considerations,
>>> getting along (or not) with administration and profs, the failings of
>>> famous brands of pianos, ripoffs from dealers, and various
>>> bloopers we have suffered/perpetrated in the past, perhaps we should
>>> have at least a thin gauze curtain lowered, instead of standing
>>> fully-lighted
>>> in front of a plate glass picture window?
>>>
>>> Couldn't we make the caut list available to subscribers only? It's
>>> not very restrictive, since anyone can subscribe.
>>>
>>> I did figure out years ago (during the flamewar period) that a 
>>> general
>>> search would pull up all sorts of old posts from pianotech. It gave
>>> me pause, which wasn't that bad a thing. I thought of a few gems I
>>> had written and posted in haste, sheltered only by time and the 
>>> volume
>>> of other posts, innocently sitting there in the archive for the
>>> rest of my natural life (and beyond?) <blush>
>>>
>>> Susan Kline
>>>
>>>
>>> At 03:08 PM 3/13/2004 -0500, you wrote:
>>>> Fred Sturm is exactly right.  I just tried it.  I picked a general
>>>> piano-tec item, and did a Google search.  One of them took me to the
>>>> UK
>>>> Piano Page Forum, and another took me straight to PTG's CAUT.  I'm
>>>> sure
>>>> there were a lot more if I had continued, but that was enough to 
>>>> prove
>>>> Fred's point.
>>>>
>>>> Jim Ellis
>>>
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> caut list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives
>>>
>>>
>> Tim Coates
>> University of South Dakota
>> Universtiy of Sioux Falls
>
>> _______________________________________________
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> _______________________________________________
> caut list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives
>
>
Tim Coates
University of South Dakota
Universtiy of Sioux Falls