Killing the List

[pianomarv]

John,
With all due respect, may I suggest that the reason we may be experiencing this
lack of
professionalisum and technical discussions would be because nobody is stearing
the
discussion in that direction.  People like you could be the very spark that is
needed to
get this list back on track.  This is STILL a very valuable resource for
everyone and to
just throw it away seems to be a bit extreme.

Have a very Merry Christmas everyone and God Bless us all.

---Marvin McDonald Jr.

"Woodrow, John (Parramatta)" wrote:

> List,
> I receive the list in digest form.  I logged onto my computer this morning
> for the first time in 3 days and there were 26 digests of Pianotech list,
> TWENTY-SIX!!!!!!!!!!!!!.
>
> I have watched guys like Bob B. and Ed Foote trying to reason with this
> forum to stop sending non-technical postings, 'me-toos', and HTML garbage.
> I one-hundred and ten percent agree with them and I am sure many others do
> so as well.
>
> I have been following this list for about 5 years now, and can clearly
> remember the 'good-old' days when 95% of posts were technical in nature and
> we had just the odd joke or comment.  Every post was worth reading, and I
> looked forward to each day's discussion.  Go back in the archives 3 or 4
> years, any digest, and read the content and check out the name of the
> contributors, impressive.  Now I can read 6 or 7 digests in a row and be
> lucky to find anything of worth.  I am just on the point of considering that
> there is no more value to me in this list.
>
> The reason I have bothered to spend the time writing this is because I once
> considered this list to be the most valuable resource possible.  From this
> list, or my own investigations that may have resulted from an idea raised
> here, I would have to acknowledge that just about everything I know about
> pianos is a result of this list.  So it saddens me no end to see this once
> valuable resource reduced to little more than trivial social pages.
>
> I'll make a wish for Christmas ....... please Santa, return Pianotech list
> back to the valuable resource for piano technicians that it once was.
>
> John Woodrow