[pianotech] unsubscribe

[Alan Forsyth]

err, no!

You're confusing guests with contributors. It's the contributors who built up the list, by open invitation. It has nothing to do with membership and for my part I'm certainly not prepared to pay dues to be a contributor.  It's the lurkers who are the guests. Duaine may be persona non grata, but he is still a contributor and as such his voice still counts; you have to admit that we have all learned from him even though that may only be not to employ him as an aural tuner.

Just my contribution.

AF
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Leslie Bartlett 
  To: pianotech at ptg.org 
  Sent: Monday, January 02, 2012 7:41 PM
  Subject: Re: [pianotech] unsubscribe


  PTG is a club. It's members- those who have rights to influence ongoing
  decisions, pay hefty dues to be part of the club. They have ongoing
  discussions and squabbles about the rules of the club. But it's their club.
  They built up this club with years of hard work and dedication in order to
  aid each other with their desire to be more capable technicians. 

  Those who are not members of the PTG, yet use the PTG list are guests, and
  it is expected that guests would behave as such. They have no rights, only
  privileges.  If they want rights, then they should join the club.

  If they want to squabble about the rules, then they should pay the "higher
  dues" and become RPT's.  That's how the club was set up, and it is the
  members, not the guests, who only have reason to be discussing the everyday
  irritations of the group. "Right" is what has been decided over the years by
  the RPT's.  It simply is the way it is. If guests continually demand
  "rights", it seems it would be a simple thing to block anyone who has not
  paid to be a member, and it would seem quite reasonable to do so, as
  knowledge shared here is free to all, including those who compete with us
  while complaining, costing us business by building their knowledge base at
  the expense of the PTG.


  I did my share of being an idiot for a year or so, as a guest.........  The
  rock isn't going to bend, so one either understands and follows the rules,
  or they will eventually be shunned from sheer irritation of those who have
  learned the rules......
  Les Bartlett






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