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[Don]

Hi Bill,

Please STOP wasting band width!

At 02:07 PM 11/30/97 -0500, you wrote:
>In a message dated 97-11-24 07:38:17 EST, you write:
>
><< While it is always
> permissable to offer your opinion, it can be quite another to dictate
> what is offerred by someone else.  >>
>     I've never dictated to anyone that which may or may not be permissible.
> I have been quite shocked however by some of the language and useless
>negative remarks I've seen on this Forum.  Yes, I am new to it but I still
>don't think I have to wait until I get used to seeing people call pianos
>"POS" and "Merde" as well as comments intended solely to belittle someone
>else, their work or their reputation and that offer virtually nothing
>constructive, to say something about it.
>    There has been far too much negagtivity in the PTG organization in the
>last few years.  It needs to cease.  Continuing it here will serve only a
>destructive purpose.
>    We can and should, indeed, have a sense of humor, and express any and all
>feelings of good cheer.  We should also talk about our problems:  defective
>materials and workmanship, manufacturing design defects, and poor, unproven
>and useless remedies and techniques.
>    Since this is an open forum that virtually anyone may enter, do we really
>want the general public to know that we regard certain people, pianos and
>practices with such disdain that we use base and vulgar language to descibe
>it?   It's not that I don't personally use that kind of language from time to
>time or think about privately in the most base and negative ways,  what I
>would really like to do or say to someone whom I think really shouldn't be in
>the business.  We have paid good money for this computer equipment and spend
>valuable time using it.  If I want to hear and engage in the kind of dialog
>that some here want to be able to so freely toss about,  I know where I can
>go to hear it much cheaper.
>    Remember the old saying, "people who live in glass houses should not
>throw stones".   I don't want "POS" and "merde" in my computer files or
>students and the general public reading those things and forming an opinion
>of the level of professionalism that is common to PTG members based upon
>those kinds of comments.  Those kinds of expressions are easy to fling
>around.  They are also easy to read and much more noticeable than truly
>thought out responses which hold information and opinions of substance.  It
>takes time I would rather spend on something constructive to delete all of
>the worthless negativity.
>    Sincerely,
>    Bill Bremmer RPT
>    Madison, Wisconsin
>     "I only have one real enemy...Mediocrity"
>
>
Regards, Don Rose (drose@dlcwest.com)