At 09:28 AM 9/23/05, Michelle Stranges wrote: >Yayaayyyyyyyyyy for the Wurly's!! > >:D Might I be so bold as to suggest (strongly) that the CAUT list is not the place for these one-liners and posts simply expressing atta-boys, me-toos, and the like. I'm not picking on Michelle here; in truth, its all of us cluttering up what has been a fairly professional and useful list in this manner________ especially lately. This is one of the reasons a great many of us no longer participate in the Pianotech list (which, BTW, originated with this group as the first caut list) ... it simply took up too much valuable time to sift through useless material, most of which should have been sent privately, off-list, in the first place. Not only do these extraneous posts bog down the CAUT list itself, they also nest in the CAUT list archives, making that excellent tool more unwieldy and less useful for everyone. Filters, you say?? Well, really, I can't think of one person on this list whose wisdom and experience I don't value and I'm just not content to solve the problem by throwing anyone out with their bath water (as it were) but its that "bath water" that is beginning to make a soggy mess of the list. If you have something to say, by all means say it____________ we all benefit from your wisdom, experience, or questions. However, if you just want to add your own "awesome!" or "way to go!" (etc...), please send it off-list to the person(s) you're addressing. If all you really want to do is grandstand in front the rest of us... well, then I guess you have to post it to the entire list and expect us each to spend the time you wouldn't putting your post in its proper place (albiet that doesn't address the problem of the cluttered archives). It is no accident that this list (and the Pianotech list before it) is an un-moderated, open-subscription, tool available to anyone. It is in the interest of the CAUTs and other participants for it to be that way. If the CAUT list subscribers do not take active care of the list and what they post, it may well begin to be just another unwieldy Pianotech list for which most of us can not spare the time required to participate. Michelle, thanks for "volunteering" to be the poster child here; would that you were different than any of the rest of us. Truly, though, most of us can rightfully put our names here instead of yours, and *all* of us need to attend to the list, and our posts to it, accordingly. Regards, Alan B. Crane, RPT School of Music Wichita State University alan.crane@wichita.edu
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