[CAUT] Requirements for contributing/posting; RPT status

[Ron Nossaman]

> Not incredible at all, Ron.
> There was a time when CAUTS (those that were on-line anyway) were the only 
> ones who read Pianotech since it was the original CAUT list.
> It began as a shared set of e-mail addresses to which we all posted everything 
> in the days before listservers.  Danny L. Boone at Baylor was the one who got 
> me involved.
> The only reason most we left one by one was that the volume of postings (and, 
> indeed, the volume of what amounted to chatter) increased to the point that 
> the time investment was too costly in terms of our workload and available 
> time.
> If not for that, Pianotech would still be the CAUT list and we'd all still be 
> there.
> I envy those who have the time to read Pianotech, almost as much as I envy 
> those who have time to read both lists.
> Personally, though, the costs outweigh the benefits... politics 
> notwithstanding.

Yea, that's what I read here. We don't have time to read 
Pianotech, because it doesn't have anything we want anyway - 
ascertained by not reading it. Very slick. I must learn how 
that works some day.

This is also, incidentally, chatter.
Ron N