For the large sum that PTG is paying HL to run this useless forum, they could pay someone to keep this list alive. I suspect that PTG may have been conned into a multi-year expensive contract HL that has no provision for exiting from this disaster. Terry Beckingham At 12:26 PM 2/25/2013 -0600, you wrote: >On 2/25/2013 8:44 AM, Joseph Giandalone wrote: >> >>As a relative Babe-In-The-Woods (both as regards IT and as regards >>PTG and tech listserve history and infighting) : What would it take >>to keep the PianoTech list operating as it has been? > >Some obviously missing intelligence and sanity. > > >>What kind of >>expenses and hours and know-how are required? Would people be willing >>to contribute $ if that were required? (I could see making a yearly >>or quarterly contribution to it.) > >Whatever the excuse, it's not the time or cost that is the problem. It's >that the old antiquated open source list works, and the expensive and >cumbersome HL system doesn't, and makes our hired guns look bad. It's >personal for someone. If we don't have anything functional for contrast, >we'll happily and mindlessly embrace the HL experience like the demented >little sheep we are. > >Ron N
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