<!doctype html public "-//W3C//DTD W3 HTML//EN"> <html><head><style type="text/css"></style><title>Re: Solving the TP Mystery</title></head><body> <blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1">List:<br> <br> I have been trying to find out who TP is for about a month in order to use his name in a Q&A column for the Journal, giving him proper credit, and to seek his permission to do so. I have gotten one response from him wondering why I wanted his name and nothing more.<br> <br> We at the Journal depend on contributors being somewhat forthcoming in this regard; in this case, good material will just be deleted if not attribitable. Thanks to everyone else who have been so helpful over the years.</font></blockquote> <blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1"><br></font></blockquote> <blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1">Paul Revenko-Jones</font></blockquote> <blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1">Assistant Editor, PTJ</font></blockquote> <div><br></div> <div>Paul,</div> <div><br></div> <div>The most common, and usually the most generous, contributor in the list of contributors to any organization is the one named Anonymous.  I can understand that the Journal is interested in its sources, but isn't it common for magazines to print input from contributors not on the staff with the moniker 'Name Withheld by Request'?  I can see that if the input was potentially libelous or slanderous then you wouldn't want to print it without being sure who was saying it.  But if it is technical information, the only liability would seem to be that the information could be incorrect, which is also a danger with information provided by a named contributor.  Presumably, someone on the staff has decided that it is worthwhile input or they wouldn't want to print it in the first place.  As one of my clients (who is an excellent pianist) once said to me when referring to piano work, piano technicians, and their common tendency to think that they walk on water, 'I don't know anything about working on pianos myself, but I know b---s--- when I see it'.  Shouldn't we, who supposedly do know something about working on pianos, be in a better position to make that same judgement?  Personally, I'd rather have a valuable contribution from an anonymous contributor, than BS from a named contributor.</div> <div><br></div> <div>Respectfully,</div> <div><br></div> <div>Phil Ford</div> <div><br></div> <div><br></div> <x-sigsep><pre>-- </pre></x-sigsep> <div>Phillip Ford<br> Piano Service and Restoration<br> 1777 Yosemite Ave - 130<br> San Francisco, CA  94124</div> </body> </html>