<font color='navy' size='2' face='Comic Sans MS, sans-serif'><font color="#000080" face="Comic Sans MS, sans-serif" size="4">Dear list colleagues</font> <div><font color="#000080" face="Comic Sans MS, sans-serif" size="4"><br> </font></div> <div><font size="4"><font color="#000080" face="Comic Sans MS, sans-serif"> I would like to </font></font><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 128); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">seriously</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 128); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"> </span><font color="#000080" face="Comic Sans MS, sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"> ask every looker, every poster, be they </font><font color="#000080" face="Comic Sans MS, sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">regular</font><font color="#000080" face="Comic Sans MS, sans-serif"><font size="4"> or occasional posters to send an e-mail voice of support to this list IMMEDIATELY. A vote of support to retain this forum. Hopefully your voices can be heard at the home office. If that doesn't work you can vote with your wallet.</font></font></div> <div><font color="#000080" face="Comic Sans MS, sans-serif"><font size="4">Dale</font></font></div> <div><br> <div style="color: navy; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; clear: both;"><font size="1" color="royalblue"><b><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, Serif"><font color="black"><font color="mediumblue" face="Comic Sans MS, sans-serif">Dale Erwin R.P.T.<br> <font color="green">Erwin's Piano Restoration Inc.</font><br> </font></font></font></b></font><font color="darkgreen"><span style="font-style: italic;"><b><font size="1"><font size="1" color="black"><font color="blueviolet"><font color="black"> <font color="black" face="Comic Sans MS, sans-serif">Mason & Hamlin</font><font face="Comic Sans MS, sans-serif">/Steinway/</font><font color="black" face="Comic Sans MS, sans-serif">U.S. pianos</font><font face="Comic Sans MS, sans-serif"><br> </font></font></font></font><font size="1" color="cornflowerblue" face="Comic Sans MS, sans-serif">www.Erwinspiano.com</font><font size="1"><br> </font><font size="1" color="crimson" face="Comic Sans MS, sans-serif">Phone: 209-577-8397</font><br> <font color="darkgreen"></font></font></b></span></font><tt><tt><font color="darkgreen"><br>  </font><br>   <font size="2"></font></tt></tt><br> <br> </div> <br> <br> <div style="color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica; font-size: 10pt;">-----Original Message-----<br> From: Al Guecia/Allied PianoCraft <alliedpianocraft@hotmail.com><br> To: pianotech <pianotech@ptg.org><br> Sent: Mon, Feb 25, 2013 10:16 am<br> Subject: Re: [pianotech] Say goodbyebye Folks<br> <br> <div id="AOLMsgPart_1_ada5e0c8-154c-4ed5-8847-c794dd27ec53"> The PTG is like any other organization that gets to big. It becomes self serving and no longer serves those who put it in place. <div><br> <div> <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: initial;"> <div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; border-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "> <div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; border-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "> <div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; border-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "> <div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "> <div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Lucida Calligraphy'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px; "><i>Al -</i></span></font></div> <div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Lucida Calligraphy'"><i>High Point, NC</i></font></div> </div> </span></div> </span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div> </span></div> </span></div> <br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> </div> <br> <div> <div>On Feb 25, 2013, at 12:59 PM, Alan Eder <<a href="mailto:reggaepass@aol.com">reggaepass@aol.com</a>> wrote:</div> <br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><font size="2" face="arial"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="2">As yet another long-time dues-paying and fully enfranchised member of PTG, I just wanted to add my voice to the growing chorus of those of us who find this list both extremely valuable and handy and think it would be the height of irony for our organization to jettison what is for many the single most valuable tool we have towards furthering our professional development in real-time and on a day-to-day basis. I, for one, like receiving all posts and deciding what to read, what to save for a "rainy day," and to delete right away. I want to underscore an important point that someone else made against sub-forums: I peruse pianotech the way I choose which classes to attend at a convention, which is partially by subject, but largely by who is putting forth the information. Yes, there are certain posters whose words I am ALWAYS interested in reading, regardless of the subject matter, and others who are, shall we say, at the other end of the desirability spectrum. </font> <div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><br> </font></div> <div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="2">My two cents, FWIW,<br> </font></div> <div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><br> </font></div> <div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="2">Alan Eder<br> </font><br> <div style="font-family: helvetica, arial; font-size: 10pt; ">-----Original Message-----<br> From: David Love <<a href="mailto:davidlovepianos@comcast.net">davidlovepianos@comcast.net</a>><br> To: pianotech <<a href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</a>><br> Sent: Mon, Feb 25, 2013 9:43 am<br> Subject: Re: [pianotech] Say goodbyebye Folks<br> <br> <div id="AOLMsgPart_0_d21e0668-9da1-4de6-9623-ea765ca22d4d" style="margin: 0px; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "> <pre style="font-size: 9pt;"><tt>I agree with many other comments that the problems with the new list are primarily the user friendliness (takes too long), posting photo problems, and the fractured aspect of the various communities and associated cross posting issues. Looking for various other lists to subscribe to is just too much trouble and creating even more fracturing and dilution, in my view. The junk mail/pop up/invasiveness of google has no appeal for me. It's too bad that the problems couldn't, or wouldn't be resolved. A valuable resource will be lost, or at least diminished. Come April 1st I think I will simply take a permanent (or at least semi-permanent until something changes for the better) break from the list(s). David Love <a target="_blank" href="http://www.davidlovepianos.com/">www.davidlovepianos.com</a> </tt></pre> </div> </div> </div> </font></div> <br> </div> </div>  </div> </div> </font>