[pianotech] Say goodbyebye Folks

[Encore Pianos]

To Keith:

I have read enough of your posts over time to be of the opinion that you are
not always artful with the language.  

You must have up most of the night celebrating the good news (for you) that
the old list is being flushed down the hopper, since your post is timed at
after 3 in the morning.  Maybe it's just me, but do I detect some barely
hidden gloating in this post that you probably couldn't resist the urge to
send?  Are you being a little too much like Charlie Sheen with his
"Winning!!!!" - expansive and pathetic at the same time?

"Please don't feel that I am unsympathetic to a lost friend as the Pianotech
Listserv, but times, they do move on, like it or not. Someone, or something,
has got to go first in order that others, or other things, should live on
next."  Wow, that's deep.  And your insincerity is drooling.  And now my
overactive imagination has me thinking of the Titanic movie, where Rose
(Kate Winslet) unclasps Jack Dawson's (Leonardo DeCaprio) cold dead hands
from the door she is laying afloat on, and he drifts down into the dark
abyss, so that she may go on and live.

Perhaps it is a bit more like the noble ending of Dickens, "A Tale of Two
Cities", where the character Sydney Carton goes to the guillotine in the
place of another.  You know the drill.... "It is a far better thing that I
do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I
have ever known."

But then, he volunteered didn't he?  

Sincerely yours,

A resistant person


  

-----Original Message-----
From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf
Of Joseph Garrett
Sent: Sunday, February 24, 2013 3:14 AM
To: pianotech
Subject: [pianotech] Say goodbyebye Folks

>From the Dark Side:
"2.From: Keith McGavern
Posted: Saturday February 23, 2013 2:37 PM
Subject: Pianotech Mail-List Server closing April 1st
Message: All,
 
The thing I find so interesting about this final decision being made is
this.
 
The very thing that some resistant persons, whom have supposedly refused to
participate in, which is not the case entirely, and even one of those has
referred to calling it the dark side, will now most certainly have to
participate fully with my.ptg.org, or disappear from the scene. I find that
somewhat ironic.
 
There is one other option, however, and that is possibly Pianotech at
Google+ set up by Ron Berry. Only drawback, it still requires logging on 
Google+ to
the web.
 
So, the Mailman concept will be gone from PTG (Piano Technicians Guild),
however disappointing. It has served us well with all the volunteers that
worked behind the scenes to make it happen since forever!
 
Please don't feel that I am unsympathetic to a lost friend as the Pianotech
Listserv, but times, they do move on, like it or not. Someone, or something,
has got to go first in order that others, or other things, should live on
next.
 
I certainly am no exception.
 
Keith McGavern, RPT
Shawnee, Oklahoma, USA

What really galls my balls is that I had to hear it from the likes of Keith
McGavern! And, that the Board didn't have the balls to let us know in an
expedient fashion. 
See y'all in the funnies after April 1st.

Joe Garrett, R.P.T.
Captain of the Tool Police
Squares R I
http://gpianoworks.com/