<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=UTF-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> <font face="Courier New, Courier, monospace">Dale -- FORMER RPT??? If you wanted to get attention (even while using a<br> question mark), I imagine you just did!<br> <br> There would be considerable irony if the PTG's leaders attempted to kill off <br> the list, and only succeeded in wounding their own credential instead.<br> <br> I am going to hang tough, hoping that pianotech may find its way to a <br> straightforward mailman list kept by a simple ISP for a small professional fee, as <br> Horace suggests. I laud the efforts to set it up as a Google group, <br> but I don't really trust Google, Yahoo, Facebook, Twitter, and all the <br> rest of them. They monitor every key stroke you make, for their own purposes. <br> And do we NEED them? <br> <br> Susan<br> <br> <br> </font><br> Dale Erwin wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:8CFE251E5DBA295-10A4-703C5@webmail-m143.sysops.aol.com" type="cite"><font color="navy" face="Comic Sans MS, sans-serif" size="2">Thanks to all who have registered massive support for this list. <div>It has changed my life in so many ways. So many friends, so much collegiality, Such a brain trust!!!. </div> <div> You all are awesome</div> <div>Kind regards</div> <div>Dale S . Erwin</div> <div>Former RPT? hmmm<br> <br> <div style="clear: both;"><font color="royalblue" size="1"><b><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, Serif"><font color="black"><font color="mediumblue" face="Comic Sans MS, sans-serif">Dale Erwin <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 color="black" size="1"><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 color="cornflowerblue" face="Comic Sans MS, sans-serif" size="1"><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.Erwinspiano.com">www.Erwinspiano.com</a></font><font size="1"><br> </font><font color="crimson" face="Comic Sans MS, sans-serif" size="1">Phone: 209-577-8397</font><br> </font></b></span></font><tt><tt><font color="darkgreen"><br> </font><br> </tt></tt><br> <br> </div> <br> <br> <div style="font-family: arial,helvetica; font-size: 10pt; color: black;">-----Original Message-----<br> From: Encore Pianos <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:encorepianos@metrocast.net"><encorepianos@metrocast.net></a><br> To: pianotech <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org"><pianotech@ptg.org></a><br> Sent: Tue, Feb 26, 2013 7:57 am<br> Subject: Re: [pianotech] Protest the loss of PianoTech by responding<br> <br> <div id="AOLMsgPart_1_1a78adee-423c-4e6d-97b3-a9f5c9517963"> <div class="WordSection1"> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">I think Susan has said it all. </span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Will</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></div> <div> <div style="border-style: solid none none; border-color: rgb(181, 196, 223) -moz-use-text-color -moz-use-text-color; border-width: 1pt medium medium; padding: 3pt 0in 0in;"> <div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">From:</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org">pianotech-bounces@ptg.org</a> [<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org?">mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>David Andersen<br> <b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, February 26, 2013 10:43 AM<br> <b>To:</b> <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</a><br> <b>Subject:</b> Re: [pianotech] Protest the loss of PianoTech by responding</span></div> </div> </div> <div class="MsoNormal"> </div> <div class="MsoNormal">Ho! BIG agreement. The leadership of PTG are throwing away a precious diamond; are we gonna let them? If that happens, I'm back posting every day. This divided, truncated, mess that exists now is de-inspiring, confusing, depressing. Little boxes of self-interest, scattered, impersonal---yuck. Susan, you rock. Great sentence below….</div> <div> <div class="MsoNormal"> </div> </div> <div> <div class="MsoNormal">David Andersen</div> </div> <div> <div class="MsoNormal"> </div> </div> <div> <div class="MsoNormal"> </div> </div> <div> <div class="MsoNormal"> </div> </div> <div> <div> <div> <div> <div class="MsoNormal">On Feb 25, 2013, at 11:07 PM, Susan Kline <<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:skline@peak.org">skline@peak.org</a>> wrote:</div> </div> <div class="MsoNormal"><br> <br> </div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size: 13pt;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 13pt;">After all, if the PTG doesn't value the one, the unique, the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><br> <span style="background: white none repeat scroll 0%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">first, the simplest, and the most popular piano technicians' email<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><br> <span style="background: white none repeat scroll 0%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">list ever, then perhaps they deserve to see it leave their premises to take on<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><br> <span style="background: white none repeat scroll 0%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">a life of its own?<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></div> </div> <div class="MsoNormal"> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </font> </blockquote> </body> </html>