Bob.... Your idea dies upon its own unreasonablness. I mean... who is going to monitor your version of pianotech ??... and why wont that result in the same delay you seem to react to before the fact ? Any monitoring and censorship implies a delay... as you simply have to have humans to do the work. So the kind of solution Andy forwards actually minimizes the delay as its not alllll that important if a moderater takes things a bit to quickly.... the same posts automatically go to the other list and can be easily enough brought back in if needed. Face it Bob.... its not a perfect world and it never will be. Seems to me you have a whole bunch of skeptics ready to meet you half way... I suggest you take the opportunity to move a few steps in a direction you seem to want and see what happens. Cheers RicB BobDavis88@aol.com wrote: > So those of us who want to talk about "pianos" on a "pianotech" list > must pay by losing real-time access? Doesn't seem fair. I'd like to > trot out an idea I proposed last brouhaha - if we're going to have > parallel lists, make them pianotech and pianochat. Those who like the > full range of talk simply subscribe to both, and they will > transparently continue to receive posts both about pianos, and about > barbeques and Jesus. Those who want to receive only piano talk > subscribe to pianotech. This is the way it works now with pianotech > and caut. For those of us who subscribe to both, it's like one big > list; but those who aren't interested in college matters don't see > those posts. > > I too enjoy richness of expression and the individuality of my > colleagues. Watching the list over the past years, I don't see > complaints when someone cracks a joke or mentions beer in a basically > piano-related discussion, (and besides, what would we do without > Andre', the Netherlander who uses English more poetically than most of > us for whom it is a first language?). > > I don't think there's all that much disagreement on where the line is. > If there were easy access to a parallel list, no one has to moderate, > and if an off-topic post shows up, it is fair game for PRIVATE > reminders to take it to pianochat. > > Thanks to all, > Bob Davis
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