<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BR><DIV><DIV>On Oct 31, 2006, at 2:09 PM, <A href="mailto:A440A@aol.com">A440A@aol.com</A> wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>It might be interesting to search by author,(is that possible?), and<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">notice who's postings are relevant to pianos and whose are not. <SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></FONT></P> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR><DIV>Bearing in mind, of course, that this is not simply a listserve for piano technical information only, but for fodder pertaining to the college technician, which, of course, could include all matters related to employment, contracts, dealing with school related politics, etc., and, yes, pianos.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Most of us are in a solitary situation, with no one except the members of this list with whom we can carry on conversations about what we do and related matters. We are by ourselves all day with not much company except the others on this list. It is entirely natural and human for conversation subject matter to deviate from time to time.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>In my opinion, if you want a listserve restricted to technical piano information, it should be the pianotech list.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>But due to the quality of posts to this list and the vast number of different related tangent posts which can develop, it would be very difficult, if not impossible, to remain disciplined to rename subject lines to reflect the exact subject matter being discussed. Again, my opinion.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>my thoughts,</DIV><BR><BR><DIV> <SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV>Jeff Tanner, RPT</DIV><DIV>University of South Carolina</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></SPAN> </DIV><BR></BODY></HTML>