Research-Jim Come On Back

[Joel Rappaport]

Fellow List Members:

Let's not be so quick to start pounding the computer keys.  There is a
substantial delay from mail system to mail system.  I don't understand
it, but it seems to be there.  This may invoke confusion and let's not
allow it to destroy our amazing ability to communicate to and from all
over the world!  Frank commented as follows:

Frank Weston wrote:
>
> JIMRPT@aol.com wrote:
> >
> > [[personal thank you from Jim]]
> >
> > Jim Bryant (FL)
>
> Jim,
>
> This is exactly the type of post that should be made person to person.
> I understand that you have the best of intentions, but if you clutter
> the list with personal notes, people will be very tempted to just hit
> the delete key when they see your name.  If you want to be read and
> have your opinions seriously considered, please stick to topics that
> are of interested to most of the pianotech readers.
>
> Regards,
>
> Frank Weston

Frank is righ IMO, but, actually, I thought Jim had already appologized
as follows:

> List;
>  In sending thank yous to all who replied to my request I messed up by
> not double checking all the return adds.  As I told Bob I can only
> attribute it to Drain Bamage.
> Jim Bryant (FL)
>

A big part of the problem is that several List Members responded to Jim
through the PianoTech List instead of responding personally to Jim at
his AOL address.  So when Jim replied, he inadvertently sent his Thank
You to the correspondent in care of the List!  This should be a lesson
to us all that when one of us asks for a personal response, let's reply
to him/her at his/her personal email address unless our response is of
utmost importance to the List as a whole.

Now Andre writes something that leads me to believe Jim is considering
leaving the group.  Funny that I am received posts that come from
Holland before received posts from Florida, but there you have it.

This just seems like a misunderstanding.  Jim, come on back and let's
continue talking about pianos.

Joel Rappaport
Round Rock, Texas