[pianotech] piano behavior - shrinking with H20 & alcohol - list mechanics

[Ron Nossaman]

On 11/27/2011 7:33 AM, David Skolnik wrote:
>I'm talking about a problem on our older, esteemed
> pianotech list, not the new one. I was pointing out that the 'thread'
> (Rick Ucci) seemed to be responding to a post (from Chris Storch) that
> I, for one, never received. That, in conjunction with other comments
> about transmission anomalies made me wonder what was happening.

My mistake.


> I continue to wonder why there is no further discussion about the
> disposition of this list. You would say to me, well how come you haven't
> said anything. You're right. I'll try once more. Not here.

We apparently have no choice other than to accept it or not participate. 
Discussion hasn't changed that yet and most likely won't.


> With regard to threading on the new list, while it may not be the most
> egregious flaw, it has been a glaring one for me. Even allowing for your
> principled refusal to accommodate the rigidity of the reply mechanism,
> to wit, every one of your posts becomes a thread unto itself, the
> insanity of the organizational algorithm (again, of the new list) is not
> chronological, but rather, by the tree of 'last reply' (my description).
> I don't even want to talk about it here. It's (to me) insane, and
> irrelevant.

As is the whole situation with the new :system". I traffic both the old 
and new lists by email, with Thunderbird. This is the "Legacy" system so 
thoughtfully provided by Higher Colonic. My replies contain a "Re:" in 
the subject line when they leave here, but are stripped by the 
postmasticator and turned into something else before being posted to the 
site. It's not something I'm doing. If they pretend to offer an email 
option, it's their problem to make the damned thing work, or it ought to 
be. As it is, I can't attach photos without logging on, so I mostly 
don't bother because the system offends me. I also can't see others 
photos without logging on, and have no indication in a list of 
downloaded emails, which of them has attachments, so I lose one valuable 
(to me) search criteria when I'm looking for something in my archives.


> The absence of spell check...now there's a real disaster in waiting.

My spell check works as well or badly as it ever did. If the on line 
editor doesn't have one, it's just another indication of the level of 
incompetence of the "providers".

And we have no advocates. There is no one with the power to make it 
stick demanding of Higher Colonic that they either fix the problems or 
be gone. Why?

Ron N