[CAUT] Requirements for contributing/posting; RPT status

David Ilvedson ilvey at sbcglobal.net
Fri Jul 11 23:32:41 MDT 2008


I don't see the problem...interesting items to CAUT will be conveyed to CAUT via those on both Lists...

David Ilvedson, RPT
Pacifica, CA  94044

----- Original message ----------------------------------------
From: "Ron Nossaman" <rnossaman at cox.net>
To: "College and University Technicians" <caut at ptg.org>
Received: 7/11/2008 7:47:11 PM
Subject: Re: [CAUT] Requirements for contributing/posting;  RPT status



>> 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


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