Rattling their Cage

[Norman Barrett]

I think that it is very sad that you have chosen to continue using 
inflammatory posts such as this.

Norm Barrett

Billbrpt@AOL.COM wrote:

> Well, after another long, hard day's work and an evening at the gym, I 
> see
> what could easily have been predicted.  The same bunch, the same 
> complaints.  
> You see, I merely provide the catalyst for getting them to spout off, in
> greater detail than I have ever seen any of them write a technical post,
> about that one guy they just wish would go away.  Horace is as free to 
> write
> on the List, provide technical information, quote poetry or philosophy to
> underscore it as anyone.  I'd like to see something of real value, 
> just once.
> 
> As for the many posts that were never written because I somehow stood 
> in the
> way, how about the ones that were never written because the List is 
> too full
> of off topic discussion, one liners, personal notes, etc., (that I 
> never had
> anything to do with) for any serious minded tech to be interested in 
> wading
> through?
> 
> I'd like to see all of those that took the time to vent their hatred, 
> anger
> and frustration with me and my *behavior* to write some kind of 
> opinion about
> tuning hammer styles (a subject in this month's Journal) and methods of
> operating one.  There is more than one person who has currently asked 
> about
> this topic and I'm sure there are others who have questions.
> 
> It is a classic example of a topic where you will get opinions from 
> the very
> best technicians that will seem to contradict each other.  I believe 
> the best
> way for any individual to sort this kind of contradictory information 
> out is
> to be able to read as many opinions with details as possible.  And I 
> don't
> mean one liners like, "I'm a Jerk tuner, the ladies love it".
> 
> OK, Ola, let's see how many of the now famous Baloney Bunch, the 
> remnants of
> that erstwhile tame and civil group that lived in such blissful harmony
> before *I* came along will write something worth reading and worth 
> putting in
> the archives.  I know each one of them can do it and I do respect their
> opinions which often concur with mine.  I don't "attack" them if they 
> differ
> from mine.  It is and always has been the HT controversy that that has 
> been
> inflammatory in and of itself.  This, in spite of repeated denials. 
>  In the
> back of their minds, it is *always* the "Oh him again, the one who does
> *that*!"  It colors their perception and raises the most deep seated 
> defense
> mechanisms every time.
> 
> But the idea is not going away, nor am I.
> 
> Bill Bremmer RPT
> Madison, Wisconsin