The Good Old Days ??

[Avery Todd]

Allan or list,

I've been on this list for quite a few years now. Back in the BYU days.
Danny Boone is the one who kept goading me to get on it! :-) Sometime
in the mid 90's.

If I'm not mistaken, didn't the pianotech list evolve out of the caut list?

Avery

At 08:01 PM 8/25/04, you wrote:
>Ric,
>
>Sometime before that point, and the time some may be referring to, the
>list was housed on the BYU server and started up by Jack Reeves.  In the
>early days, it was much like the CAUT list in intent.  Each person
>understood that the discussions were only about institutional situations
>and that your name and institutional affiliation were to be included on
>each post.  It was very focused and very genteel.  There were quite a
>few very highly respected names who made wonderful posts and the noise
>was practically nil.  Perhaps those are the days being referenced...
>
>Allan
>
>Allan L. Gilreath, RPT
>Allan Gilreath & Associates, Inc.
>PO Box 1133
>Calhoun, GA 30703
>allan@allangilreath.com
>706 602-7667
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: pianotech-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org] On
>Behalf Of Richard Brekne
>Sent: Thursday, August 19, 2004 2:01 PM
>To: Newtonburg
>Subject: The Good Old Days ??
>
>Hi folks... Ed, Barbara.. and others who recently took up this flag.
>
>I've been here since 1998... maybe late 97... not really sure.  And
>personally I dont buy this romanticised picture of how great things were
>
>in yesteryears pianotech.  In fact I really dont notice much of a change
>
>in either content or tone on the whole at all.  When I poped up the
>raging war at the time was one Ed Foote up against one Bill Bremmer.
>And boy did things get nasty.  I got wrapped up in a couple with a few
>people as well for statements and opinions that still have me aghast in
>wonderment as too what brought all that about.  I've watched a select
>agenda oriented types few bully off one person after another for having
>some view or another about pianos they didnt like. Ive seen outbreaks of
>
>political posts about Clintons presidency by the bushel.  Religion has
>been a regular player all along... and all the posts I've seen through
>the years relating how sick and tired somebody is of all the crap has
>not increased or decreased one bit as far as I can see.
>
>Sorry... I dont buy it. I dont buy that somehow people just 8 years ago
>were fundementally more well behaved then they are now.  What in human
>nature could possible explain such a degenerate evolution ?  I'd like to
>
>hear some Darwinistic justification .... grin.  No no no... its easy to
>romantisize the good old days... easy to forget the bad and remember the
>
>good.  But frankly... the only thing I've seen fundementally change here
>
>in 6 + years  are a few faces.
>
>Cheers
>RicB
>
>
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