Copyright Infringement

[Yardbird47@aol.com]

As one who put out a newsletter consituously for three years and
intermittently for the previous two I'll have to weigh in with an emphatic
decree to to request permission for each and every post you lift from this
forum. It's not a matter of copyrights or public domaine discussions, but one
of simple courtesy.
I know what a long and lonely job it is coming up with copy each month. If
you're complaining about the time to secure the e-mail OK for what, at most
three authors a month, what is that to complain about compared to having to
write it yourself. E-mail too much to deal with? Think of our hero John Baird
who makes up those little digests for you.
Certainly, subscribing to <pianotech> is the free and easy way of filling out
the newsletter (after all the mundane business items), and certainly those of
of us who put together our paragrphs fpor the general conversation here are
in favor of seeing local newsletter thus fleshed out. But with all the hours
we save you in creative writing, couldn't you at least do a routine courtesy
of asking our permission. Heck, we'd even like a copy of the issue in which
our remarks show up, not necessarily to see ourselves in print but to see
your newsletter and read about your chapter.

Bill Ballard, RPT           "She will slap you, she will kiss you,
NH Chapt, PTG                      you will fall in love with her"
                                               from a promotional t-shirt
                                                  for Kendrick rock'n'roll
amps. (YUK)