<font color='black' size='2' face='Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif'> <div></div> <div style="color: black; font-family: arial,helvetica; font-size: 10pt;"><blockquote style="padding-left: 3px; border-left-color: blue; border-left-width: 2px; border-left-style: solid;"><pre><tt><tt>Goodbye Joe me gotta go me Oh! My Oh! And so goes my membership. Joe Goss BSMusEd MMusEd RPT</tt></tt></pre></blockquote></div> <div></div> <div></div> <div style="clear: both;"> <div> Joe.. Why give up your membership because Pianotech will no longer be? What did we do before Pianotech? It has been a good way of communicating, but it's not the only way. I don't know how this new Google thing will work, but I'm willing to give it a try. And, as has been reported, even the new myptg will be improved. </div> <div> </div> <div>Don't throw out the baby with the bath water. </div> <div> </div> <div>Wim</div> </div> <div></div> <div></div> <div style="color: black; font-family: arial,helvetica; font-size: 10pt;">-----Original Message-----<br> From: Joe Goss <imatunr@gmail.com><br> To: joegarrett <joegarrett@earthlink.net>; pianotech <pianotech@ptg.org><br> Sent: Sun, Feb 24, 2013 4:57 am<br> Subject: Re: [pianotech] Say goodbyebye Folks<br> <br> <div style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Sans-Serif; font-size: 12px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" id="AOLMsgPart_0_60cf5ad4-0784-4232-ada1-18cad14150c2"> <pre style="font-size: 9pt;"><tt>Goodbye Joe me gotta go me Oh! My Oh! And so goes my membership. Joe Goss BSMusEd MMusEd RPT <a href="mailto:imatunr@gmail.com">imatunr@gmail.com</a> <a href="http://www.mothergoosetools.com" target="_blank">www.mothergoosetools.com</a> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joseph Garrett" <<a href="mailto:joegarrett@earthlink.net">joegarrett@earthlink.net</a>> To: "pianotech" <<a href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</a>> Sent: Sunday, February 24, 2013 1:14 AM 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 > 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 > <a href="http://gpianoworks.com/" target="_blank">http://gpianoworks.com/</a> > </tt></pre> </div>  </div> </font>