<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div><br></div>JF:<br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><blockquote type="cite">I rather liked being able to<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">open my email, quickly scan the new stuff, delete or read at will and move<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">on.</blockquote></span></blockquote>Exactly my feeling and thoughts...<br><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><blockquote type="cite"> What looks like progress is not always progress.<br></blockquote></span></blockquote>Great statement. Deep practical wisdom.<br><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><br>Yes, absolutely agree.<br></span></blockquote>A concensus.... :---)<br><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><br>There is, i think, the aspect of the "paradigm" or "model" of our<br>discussion, too.<br></span></blockquote>This, IMO, is the heart, the crucial and foundational issue of what's at stake...<br><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><br><b>The email mailing list is always CURRENT. It is the conversation going on<br>in the room at any one time. In a real room full of people, we can come<br>in, and join in the discussion of any little group of persons that sounds<br>interesting to us. For a time, we might leave the room, closing the door<br>behind us. But then we an come back in and rejoin, with a quick listen to<br>everything that's going on, before homing in our our preferred<br>conversation.<br><br>This list is like a little community with conversation always going on. We<br>might leave the room by not contributing or reading, for a while, because<br>of holidays or family circumstances or whatever, but we can come back into<br>the room and quickly see what current conversation is going on.<br><br>It feels current, and lively, and like a community. What goes around<br>comes around, and discussions and topics do get re-visited, and questions<br>that were answered four years ago, asked again. But that's probably OK,<br>in the main.</b></span></blockquote></div>This is a concise, elegant, brilliant encapsulation of what I'm afraid of losing with the new and in my view way less intimate structure.<div>Alan G., I hope you're not including me in those voices that hurt you. I recognize and deeply respect your purpose-driven life of service and how it intersects with me via the PTG---AND I will always, with that respect, tell you the truth as I perceive it in a direct, unadorned way, as befits a native of Omaha, Nebraska. I sincerely hope that the email configuration as it currently exists will continue; a real feeling of community is fragile and ethereal; we should strive with all our might to nurture and protect it.</div><div><br></div><div>This list has leapt (for you Brits) past so many of the old barriers that kept us away from a real, authentic, day-to-day relationship with our colleagues. Because of this list, we judge less; we are exponentially better craftspeople; we like each other (by and large) and we are in an active learning curve, in many dimensions, every day. I've made lifelong friendships as a result of this list; expanded my business; learned new ways of doing things and have been inspired to get out of my comfort zone endless times.</div><div><br></div><div>Pianotech is a real and passionate part of my life; I want it to stay that way and nurture this immediacy, this natural relationship. That's my stand, and that's my commitment. I pledge to treat every aspect of this subject with calm and respect, and to keep personal judgements and invective, subtle or overt, out of my participation.</div><div><br></div><div>Please, PLEASE post here as if you were face-to-face and eye-to-eye with a roomful of dudes and dudettes. Please. JD, I would like to see you apologize for your outburst. That was not simply plain speaking, brother. That was hurtful. Please think AND feel before you hit SEND.</div><div><br></div><div>My best to all----</div><div><br></div><div>David A.</div></body></html>