<!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en"> <html> Erwinspiano@aol.com wrote: <blockquote TYPE=CITE>               Richard              Although I share your unhappiness over the recent post on way overpersonlly held opinions being expressed here on list, we are a self policing agency, so far.     Personally though I take issue with your perception that the piano tech info is somehow clouded over by an abundance of this sort of thing which I will respectfully disagree......</blockquote> Thank you kindly Dale, for these words. <blockquote TYPE=CITE>              Preaching to the choir             Regard--Dale Erwin  </blockquote> I also take very much issue, with respect to the notion that Pianotech is or has become diminished by the blend of OT posts, out and out rants, piano related trivia, kidding around and that which we all enjoy most.. pure piano technical gibberish. I find it just as meaningless to accuse this list of being a bunch of lonely heart socialites as I find just about any of the other irrational ravings about politics, OT humour, or so called piano related issues. Nor would I miss out for a minute on all the entertainment I get from reading some of our more prolific humourists on this list... Roger, Ron N, Carl, and others. If we were to accept what apparenty Richards definition of garbage is in this, then what should we think of conventions where our community behaviour is nearly identical to what we find on the list ? We go in and out of pure piano technical talk all the time and boy am I gratefull we do. What an unbearably boring bunch we would be if we cant kid around, throw a few broadsides at each other, leave the arena for short interludes or the rest of it. Indeed and contrary to what some would claim, things have pretty much always been the same here and a short survey of archives will bear that out. We designate posts OT so folks can simply delete them, and that should easily go for the archives or digest. Nobody likes all of what we see around us... that doesnt mean we simply call garbage on the human race and decide to leave. Turn the channel and spare us your personal condemnations. -- Richard Brekne RPT, N.P.T.F. UiB, Bergen, Norway <A HREF="mailto:rbrekne@broadpark.no">mailto:rbrekne@broadpark.no</A> <A HREF="http://home.broadpark.no/~rbrekne/ricmain.html">http://home.broadpark.no/~rbrekne/ricmain.html</A>  </html>