OT totals for today

[gordon stelter]

If you don't like OT posts, why not just distract us
with some piano related subject ???
     Thump




--- Tvak@aol.com wrote:
> List (or what's left of it)
> 
> All this discussion about how OT's are vital to the
> list and it's our right, 
> blah blah blah... Well...
> 
> Today there are 17 OT posts in my mailbox.   12 of
> them, count 'em TWELVE are 
> from TWO individuals who in my opinion (more on that
> later) are turning this 
> list into internet SPAM.   
> 
> One individual posted THREE responses to the same
> post (bring 'em on OT) and 
> another individual also felt compelled to respond to
> this same post THREE 
> times in addition to FOUR other OT posts today
> alone. (Seven in one day.   This 
> same individual posted NOTHING about pianos today.) 
> 
> Someone should do the math and I think you'd find
> that a majority of the OT 
> crap on this list emanates from very few people.
> 
> And...these are the same people who say it's their
> right to post OTs and it 
> keeps the list vital.   Well, to prove a point, why
> don't we all post about 6 
> OT posts each day?   Will this make the list a
> better or a worse place for 
> piano technicians to discuss pianos?   
> 
> Every now and then I can understand that a
> discussion might lead to a topic 
> that is OT, and that in the sake of comaraderie, one
> might find one's self 
> writing about something other than pianos.   
> 
> But how does one convince one's self that it is
> appropriate to just BLATHER 
> ON about things that are not pertinent to the list. 
>  SEVEN OT posts from one 
> individual and FIVE OTs from another, totalling
> twelve in all.   It's 
> ridiculous.
> 
> Yes, I posted a response to that thread, too.   One
> response.   I didn't feel 
> the need to post three on the same topic.    But go
> ahead and flame me for 
> it.   
> 
> After all, I'm nobody.   For about 4 years, I have
> read the list religiously, 
> learning things I could never learn in a book.   I
> have alot of respect for 
> some contributors to the list and I'd like to thank
> them for everything they've 
> given me and the list over the   years.   I haven't
> contributed much myself 
> and for that I probably have very little to say
> about what the list has become. 
>   I haven't volunteered much info over the years
> because I don't feel I have 
> anything to say that someone else couldn't say
> better.   
> 
> I think it's time for me to unsubscribe.   (I know,
> no one cares.   Really, 
> this is just another OT post. But why not?   Today,
> there are 20 OTs vs. 27 on 
> pianos.   If you can't beat 'em...)
> 
> I lament what the list has become.   It's so full of
> crap that it saddens me. 
>   Yeah, I can delete the OT posts.   Thanks for
> labelling them.   But I don't 
> feel comfortable here anymore.   With people
> refusing to sign their own 
> names, signing with nicknames, feeling it's
> appropriate to rant, rant, rant 
> relentlessly.   Relentlessly.   Really:  
> relentlessly.   Even if I delete all the 
> OTs I still miss the lack of community, comaraderie,
> respect and purpose that I 
> used to feel on the list.     
> 
> To the few individuals who have taken over the list
> for their own agendas, 
> give it a break.   Please.   Do it for the rest of
> you who stay on.
> 
> Sincerely,
> Why sign?   It's not protocol anymore.
> 



	
		
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