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charset=us-ascii"><meta name=Generator content="Microsoft Word 12 (filtered medium)"><style></style></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1>I don’t care for the interface either but you can minimize your exposure by simply selecting PDA or plain text formatting and then respond using your email program, in effect: write, copy and then click on the link and paste your post to the reply.  It may not be ideal but it’s doable.   <o:p></o:p><o:p> </o:p>My goal is to make the interaction as much like the old system as possible because I think the less structured free association type of dialogue has a benefit (though not everyone agrees with me).  A bit of chaos amongst the bastions of Type A’s has its benefits.  Debate isn’t always pretty but it’s often productive.  <o:p></o:p><o:p> </o:p>I still do consider the list an important part of the PTG and not a group who has simply developed an inflated sense of self importance.  Comments were made about teachers at conventions not necessarily being participants in the list but when I look at Westpac1, just off the top of my head, Del Fandrich, Dale Erwin, Mike Morvan, Horace Greeley, Nick Gravagne, and Israel Stein (no less) are all frequent participants on the list.  At national conventions there are many others.  Obviously some teachers don’t participate but many do and I think the list serves as an important barometer for what people are talking about and are interested in.  I think it is likely that the Designer’s Showcase would not have happened were it not for the discussions on soundboard design that had taken place there over those preceding years.  So I do hope that people stay with it and make the necessary adjustments.  I would also be pleased to see some acknowledgment by those who have disparaged the group based on the practices of a few that the list has real value.  For me personally it is probably the most important service that the PTG offers.  <o:p></o:p><o:p> </o:p><div>David Love<o:p></o:p>www.davidlovepianos.com<o:p></o:p></div><o:p> </o:p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'>From: pianotech-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org] On Behalf Of Encore Pianos Sent: Friday, March 11, 2011 3:18 PM To: pianotech@ptg.org Subject: Re: [pianotech] Off List - Re: Hmmm?<o:p></o:p></div></div><o:p> </o:p>No matter what anybody says, the interface sucks – it is not well designed.  The other good things about the changes do not make it good.<o:p></o:p><o:p> </o:p>Will<o:p></o:p><o:p> </o:p></div></body></html>