[pianotech] A Report from the other side; was About my web host....

[David Skolnik]

I'm trying to walk a line that might get me in trouble, though, at 
the moment, I can't see how.  (I wrote that earlier.  I'm already 
starting to see how.) I might end up breaching some protocol with 
regard to quoting/copying/paraphrasing across list-borders,  or seen 
as intentionally fanning discord.   Whatever.  In fact, I'm trying to 
push the content of the discussion while being mindful of the 
structure within which the discussion is taking place.  Joe Garrett 
(in his Report from the Dark Side) may be correct in his assessment 
of the web-forum's ultimate viability, but I'm not sure his stance in 
refusing to engage with it, on principle, is the most effective 
strategy, but that's not my point, and I hope that thought does not 
become an energy-sapping tangent.

The re-posted - post?- of Ron's that I posted (?) to the User Help 
Group of the web-forum yesterday has generated some renewed 
discussion there.  I'm hoping it can remain civil long enough to work 
through answers that often don't seem adequate, which has seemed the 
case for a long time.  I know I may be understating, but the emotions 
are intense and it doesn't seem to take much to derail any even 
potentially useful interaction.  For those of you who can and have 
not done so, it is probably worth revisiting the 'registration' 
process, since, as PTG members, (those of you who are), you are 
disenfranchising yourselves by not having access to the TWO lists 
where your opinions are heard: User Help Group and PTG-L, the 
official venue for PTG business, which, to my understanding, can ONLY 
be accessed through the web forum.

Joe G may disagree with me.  I'll ask him.

David Skolnik
Hastings on Hudson, NY


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