<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Joe, I agree. I felt that the choice of date was insulting rather than humorous, especially added to the lack of notice and the continuing lack of explanation of their rationale for closing the mailman list at all. It was immediately apparent that the people making the decisions were not the people who had been using the list, and apparently do not feel answerable to those of us for whom the list has been very important in our lives. I even have caught a hint in some of the posting about this that the EC committee presented their information, but then were left out of the deliberations. (I hope I'm wrong about that.) If so, it was a waste of their time, serving on the committee. One can say, "no harm done, Googletech will just take over for the mailman users", but I think that misses the point. What had been, just two years ago, a relatively unified and simple setup -- CAUT, pianotech, and PTG-L -- is now fragmented beyond retrieval. Dozens of little rooms on "myptg", mostly almost empty, cross-posting to get around the narrowness of the groups, hence discussions going on among a few people, some of whom don't hear what other small groups are saying about the same post, further fragmentation between old mailman pianotech and new HL pianotech, and now Google email and something I don't understand called Google+, not to forget the people who've opted out in disgust and now inhabit PianoWorld, or just turn off the computer, increasing the time they have to work, but at the cost of isolation. It seems to me this came about because the people making the decisions did not understand the concept of critical mass -- there have to be a certain number of people having a discussion for it to work right -- and also were not dedicated to transparency in how these decisions were made and announced. As a nod to the new order, I'm cross-posting this to PTG-L. <snort of disgust> Susan Kline Joseph Garrett wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:380-220133320175054546@earthlink.net" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Garret said: "I found it humorous that the list is slated to close on April 1st, April Fools Day." Garret, I can't speak for the others, but I see no Humor in it. Although it is really ironic and a slap in the face that it is happening on April Fools Day! As for the "Peace" thing, there will be no "peace" between me and the morons that did this! Grrrrr! Joe Joe Garrett, R.P.T. Captain of the Tool Police Squares R I <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://gpianoworks.com/">http://gpianoworks.com/</a> </pre> </blockquote> </body> </html>