Reality Check

[Barbara Richmond]

You've got a way with the words, Ed.  Thanks, for taking the time to write
that post.

I was surprised at how different the list was when I got back on last year,
though when I signed off in early 1997 (I signed on in 94 while on staff at
Illinois Wesleyan University) some loonies had already started making the
change and the noise volume was going up.  I suppose people are more willing
to write things that they would be less inclined to say in person.  I'm such
an innocent that I'm always shocked when people get nasty.

sigh,

Barbara Richmond, RPT


----- Original Message ----- 
From: <A440A@aol.com>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Thursday, August 19, 2004 8:12 AM
Subject: Re: Reality Check


> Greetings,
>        What happened was that from a beginning where the content on the
list
> was 99% technical, we have arrived at a point where less than half is
still
> focussed on the piano.  Where we once had a forum that dealt with the
> piano,(which provides a common denominator for ALL of us), we now have a
soapbox.  The
> discipline to keep off-topic posts off the list is no longer here, and the
> archives are polluted with thousands of "me-too" and one-liner retorts.
Utterly
> useless to the majority of techs that could be interested.  What we have
now is
> a social location, not a technical forum.
>     The value of the list was the unadulterated focus on the instrument
and
> when techs could get that concentration of information, the list was an
> attractive place.   The virtually unanimous reason I have heard for techs
dropping
> off the list is the volume of chatter that one has to wade through to
glean any
> valuable information.  By the time Newton died, the list had already
become
> bloated.
>     Those responsible for the chaff don't seem to recognize themselves,
and
> THAT is the problem.  Many seem to regard the list as a place to hold
private
> back-and-forth conversations, believing that everybody else is interested
in
> everything they have to say!  Not so, but, in an avalanche, every
snowflake
> screams innocence.
>
> Ed Foote RPT
> http://www.uk-piano.org/edfoote/index.html
> www.uk-piano.org/edfoote/well_tempered_piano.html
>
> _______________________________________________
> pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives
>