OT stuff, archives

[Richard Brekne]

You guys just dont get it.... we are a family, and while we are 
primarilly interested in talking piano here, like every family the 
conversations stray into this and that. Its just like being in one of 
those big convention receptions. 80% of the mumbling going on within any 
given earshot is piano related... and then there is a good portion of 
kidding around, a few religious, political freys, a bit of sports 
talk... whatever. You have to expect the same here. I can imagine what 
would happen if you walked up to the guy a few feet away at the closing 
dinner at the national and asked him to keep the discussion on piano 
only topics.

All that said... I see no reason why all this must be saved in the 
archives. And I really dont see why some degree of automation could not 
be employed to do the largest portion of the work.

John Page states that he goes to the trouble of cutting and pasting 
directly from the archives. If thats not more trouble then its worth for 
him to do... then requiring the addition of a small <<for the archives>> 
signalment in the subject line should be even less work for all of us.

If each of us stops to think of just how much we write in that we really 
would like to see saved... I am sure most would find quite a bit could 
easily be dropped for one or another reason. Conversation is one 
thing.... keeping records is another.

Cheers
RIcB



Erwinspiano@aol.com wrote:

> In a message dated 2/12/2004 5:55:33 AM Pacific Standard Time, 
> jonpage@comcast.net writes:
>
>     Since I started reading the list in the archives, it takes more
>     effort to reply to a topic.
>     I have to copy & paste text into an e-mail program and insert an
>     address and topic.
>     This is too much effort to go through to make a trivial quip. (the
>     bulk of postings as of late)
>
>     The problem is with the one-click reply button making it easy to
>     reply impulsively and
>     clutter the archives.  It is the impulse posting which needs to be
>     restrained.
>
>     So before you click on the send button, ask yourself, "Is this
>     really relevant to pianos?"
>
>     We get enough hype from the media. This drivel is why I stopped
>     receiving the list directly
>     to my computer. Reading the archives, I don't have to delete
>     unwanted posts, they never arrived.
>     They are cluttering up someone else's computer.  Sort of
>     like...waste not, want not.
>
>     Regards,
>
>     Jon Page, piano technician
>     Harwich Port, Cape Cod, Mass.
>     mailto:jonpage@comcast.net
>     ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 
>
>           Jon
>    Thanks I'm glad I wasn't the one to bring it up *_again!!_* Perhaps 
> we should start a piano tech politician / government *bash list so 
> this one isn't cluttered.* That way everyone can be happy.
> Dale Erwin
> Erwins Piano Restorations
> 4721 Parker Rd, Modesto, Ca. 95357
> erwinspiano@aol.com