Once and for all folks This particular suggestion has been up so many times and given the overwhelming thumbs down its absurd. The Humour list more or less supposed to serves this purpose anyways... and we all see how effective that is. The problem is simple. Everyone who is on Pianotech wants to be on pianotech, but there are a good number of folks that want to see some sort of mechanism for silling out all non relavant posts, and a good number who dont... with ensueing arguement and infighting over the issue that seemingly never ends. The suggestion on the table (which looks to be implemented soon anyways, mooting the point of all this discussion for the time being) by Andy addresses that very problem as directly as it gets. It simply allows those on pianotech who want things like they are now to continue, and those who want filters in place to have a filtered version of the same list. This suggestion also clearly implies a solution to the long standing problem with the archives being flooded with all maner of superflouse postings as well. Lets just see how the thing works. I suspect that the only hitch will be to secure enough so called <<moderators>> which really are more akin to <<filterers>> to handle the job. That problem could easily be avoided by simply reversing the idea of an OT subject line, replacing it with a ON Topic abbreviation. Any such posting would then automatically go to both list versions, and any without would only go to the non moderated version. Perhaps a very minor innconvenience for some... but given the frustration many seem to express it seems like a rather miniscule price to pay Cheers RicB Lesher, Trent J. wrote: >Actually Gordon's idea sounds like a really good one to me, not that I am an established, credentialed member of this list nor have I necessarily felt welcomed into the fold (though I have until now corresponded exclusively ON topic to piano, temperament and acoustic issues. But why not? It seems like a separate OT list specially created for this community would be perfect, especially if topic lists or email subject headings were included in the main list so people in the community could keep abreast of what topics were brewing and go to the sub-list if there was something they were interested in. > >Just MHO. > >Trent > > >
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