Exactly my thought. Sorry if things get a little off topic here but it seems to be the only "worthy" list going right now. "Pianotech" has gone downright silly and to hell in a hand basket. I was a member since nearly it's beginning long, long ago. In the old days it was a worthy list that had a lot of well known reputable people on it. We had good clean fun too, but you could always post and know that you would be getting what you came for. For all practical purposes it was the "Piano Tech Cafe" where techs met for their morning coffee and could have intelligent conversation and also have a little fun. Then the silly people started to arrive including outside enthusiasts who are not even technicians. The "good" people slowly abandoned it and the air grew foul in there. Now I can barely stand it. A while back for whatever unknown reason it stopped being delivered and I got a message that my email was bouncing. Eventually it disconnected me automatically and I never bothered to fix it. I started asking myself "why"? I am a university tech and therefore belong here, and as Jeff mentioned there are always things university related things to talk about. It seems otherwise that CAUT has become very similar to what the OLD pianotech was like years ago which is VERY refreshing. Now having said that, if someone is daring enough to take the initiative to start a new list from scratch that is more difficult for outsiders and goof balls to get onto, I'm all for it. We would need to think of a creative way to keep the wrong people out, however. Rob Goodale, RPT UNLV tech, Las Vegas ----- Original Message ----- From: Jeff Tanner I'm sorry. If someone has time for pianotech, all they could possibly be doing is sitting in front of their computer 24-7. I had to leave that list a long time ago. I've come to think of this list as a more efficient alternative. If you read through the posts on the CAUT list, it seems to me that only a small percentage could be defined as being CAUT-only material. If we actually limited this list to CAUT-only material, we would only be discussing things like dealing with faculty and administrations, working conditions, salary, job openings, inventory management, HVAC, scheduling, subbing out work, contract matters and the like. These are the kinds of issues that make CAUT life different from that of any other piano technician, and yet, they are rarely discussed here. Everything else (such as the aural/ETD debate gleaned from CAUT recently published in the PTJ) would actually belong on the pianotech list, and then, who would have time for pianotech, for sure? Jeff -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut_ptg.org/attachments/20090425/e9afda4b/attachment-0001.html>
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