Unsubscribing "THE LIST"

[Larry Fisher]

Some people like it dry, and some don't.  

For those of you that feel you need to announce your exodus from "THE LIST",
step outside for awhile, let your head wander and live without the list. Get
some fresh air.  You won't notice a thing missing.  We'll remain, chatting
back and forth on a jovial level, and every now and again, pick up on a
tidbit of info we didn't have before.  Out there, ..........  the flow of
tidbits of information regarding our trade are few as compared to....
here,.... which is always.  The odds of learning something about our trade,
.... out there ....... are really bad.  The odds of learning, or relearning
something about our trade .... HERE ..... is really very high.  The list
sometimes bores me to tears, but then so does going to church, shopping with
my wife, and living with dummies.  I endure.  I delete.  I move on, as
should you.

As for the unchallenging nature of the list lately, it may be a bore for
you, and for some it is not.  That's the internet.  That's the think tank
process.   I've recently located a part for a piano that was going to have
it's player extracted if I couldn't fix it, via "THE LIST".  There's been
times when I've located a problem in a piano just by hashing it over with
"THE LIST".  We've got manufacturers scanning "THE LIST" with every post.
That in itself is of very high value to me personally.  The Journal can't
offer that kind of interaction without putting forth considerable
journalistic effort, not to mention taking up valued space in the Journal's
pages.  Here, you can burst forth with anything, anybody can, about
anything, anyway they choose, including vulgarities, IN CAPITAL LETTERS,
and, here, you can announce your departure from "THE LIST".  

The new format of the list, (i.e. the lack of summaries at the beginning of
each digest) is not as easy for me to scan and browse it's content, but it's
faster than having to delete each post.  Someday, maybe it will change back
to having summaries, but for now I'll tolerate the extra few minutes it
takes to scan through the digest and then delete it.

Which leads me to tolerance.  We tolerate pianos and their owners everyday.
We tolerate traffic and for some, long drives across vast fields of
sagebrush and 30' snowfences.  Some of us have to deal with wayward
Crock-o-gators slothing their way across our paths of travel.  Sometimes we
acutally have to drive the speed limit.  Tolerance is sometimes worn out by
the time we get to the reading of  "THE LIST"  for the day. 

Intolerance led to the departure of some fine technicians from "THE LIST".
We'll miss their input for many years to come.  You can work "THE LIST" to
benefit you or to bother you.  The limits of it's benefits, or lack thereof,
are sometimes defined by the user. 

The internet is loaded with intolerance.  Putting it in writing is somewhat
annoying to me, but I don't have to read it if I don't choose.  We don't
have to miss you when you go, and you don't have to make a big deal about
leaving.  Best wishes to you, or as our family puts it, best Fishes to ya,
and I hope life goes well for you.  You WILL miss something from the list,
eventually.  We WILL benefit from it's content, and YOU won't.  So there.
See ya.

Lar

                                    Larry Fisher RPT
   specialist in players, retrofits, and other complicated stuff
      phone 360-256-2999 or email larryf@pacifier.com
         http://www.pacifier.com/~larryf/ (revised 10/96)
           Beau Dahnker pianos work best under water