<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" = http-equiv=Content-Type> <META content="MSHTML 5.00.3105.105" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT size=2>    Well, this is done person's take = on this, and by all means, use that delete button all you want. I, on the other = hand, am enjoying it all immensely. </FONT></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: = 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: = black"><B>From:</B> <A href="mailto:RptBob1@AOL.COM" = title=RptBob1@AOL.COM>RptBob1@AOL.COM</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A = href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org" title=pianotech@ptg.org>pianotech@ptg.org</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, November 11, = 2000 1:12 PM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: Politics/getting = sick of it all</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV><FONT size=2><B>Jim: <BR>What an eloquent and = thoughful presentation!  I would hope that our Pianotech <BR>list would get = back to what we once did so well and that is discuss piano <BR>problems. =  Of my last 65 entries from pianotech, over 25 were labeled <BR>"politics". =  I, for one, am sick and tired of all the space given to this.  I = <BR>am, of course, using my "delete" button with easy abandon for all but the <BR>pianotech entries.  It would seem that some of our overseas participants have <BR>nothing else to do but comment on our political situation (or so it would <BR>seem since I have not read any of their contributions-that great delete <BR>button).  Too bad there are = not more pianos out there for them to tune.   <BR><BR>Our Republic will = live on. <BR><BR>Bob Bergantino, RPT <BR>Willoughby Hills, Ohio</B></FONT> </BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>