[CAUT] CAUT appropriate; was: How do you spell fraud?

[Jeff Tanner]

Hi David,
Got to thinking about this during the day. Trying to make sure everyone understands I had no intention of offending anyone subscribed to pianotech.  If you reread my first post, what I was trying to actually communicate was that the great majority of the material we post on CAUT actually is "technically" more appropriate on pianotech. I absolutely intended no malice towards the pianotech list.  If we actually posted material which was specifically CAUT related on this list, there would be very little here, and tons more bandwidth on pianotech.

My thinking is that we basically have evolved into two different lists with different "personalities", both of which are appropriate to post most anything piano related. And to bring this discussion back around and make it CAUT related, it occurs to me that it wouldn't be such a bad idea to watch Craig's List for good used instruments a university might consider worthy of purchase -- that being one responsibility that falls under the CAUT umbrella.

Jeff
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: David Skolnik 
  To: caut at ptg.org 
  Sent: Tuesday, April 28, 2009 11:55 AM
  Subject: Re: [CAUT] CAUT appropriate; was: How do you spell fraud?


  Jeff -

  Totally sympathetic.  I just felt that the tone went beyond a justified existential bemoaning, towards an inaccurate and unnecessarily negative portrayal of Pianotech itself. Besides, just think about how much time you'll have to catch up on all your reading once those three littles are working in the shop and store.  

  Regards -

  David Skolnik
  Hastings on Hudson, NY

  At 10:45 AM 4/28/2009, you wrote:

    David,
    I just meant I can't subscribe to it.  I meant no disrespect to that list, but even accessing it in the archives demonstrates that the volume level is still exponentially larger than CAUT. I get to my email box now less than twice a week. Even now I just stopped by on the way out, but wanted to respond.
     
    It may have been before 2006 when I last posted to pianotech, but it was after a similar suggestion that pianotech had calmed down and the volume of emails had dropped off dramatically. And, at the time, I was at the university (different email address there) and on broadband.  What took half a day was reading the responses I was looking for, other posts not related to mine and deleting emails I didn't have time for, even though I wanted to read them.
     
    When you've got three children, a store and a pretty full service schedule, it is impossible to sit in front of the computer enough to manage the volume from both lists.
     
    Jeff
     

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