<HTML style="FONT-SIZE: x-small; FONT-FAMILY: MS Sans Serif"><HEAD><TITLE></TITLE> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content=text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1528" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY text=#000000 bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV> <DIV>Thank you, Ed. For me, in this discussion, emotions are too high, data too little and gathered in non-standardized manners so therefore not comparable, and applicability of the information to my work is too low. </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>I would have to say that the discussion is academic in at least two senses: reminds me of old days in graduate school, and is of limited practicality.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>But if others find CAUT benefit from it, let the games go on. Me, I'm using the "delete" button a lot, which is not usual with the CAUT postings.</DIV> <DIV>Just an opinion.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Dorrie Bell</DIV> <DIV>Boston, MA</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV></DIV></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt Arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=ed440@mindspring.com href="mailto:ed440@mindspring.com">Ed Sutton</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To: </B><A title=caut@ptg.org href="mailto:caut@ptg.org">College and University Technicians</A></DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> 6/11/2007 4:28:57 PM </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [CAUT] pre-stretching new string?</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV><FONT size=2> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Dear Friends-</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Perhaps there is a need for a different mailing list dedicated to intense discussion of complex and unanswerable questions of piano technology.  </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Or perhaps I'm just becoming a nasty old snoot, but I did prefer it when CAUT was more terse and to the point, and dealt with problems related to college and university work.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>If I'm alone in this opinion I'll bow out smiling.  Or should we ask PTG to create a "high intensity" technology list?</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Ed Sutton</FONT></DIV></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>