Oh Paleeeeese!! <was "I've had enough of this garbage!">

[Avery Todd]

Thanks Robert. Well said!

Avery

At 12:14 PM 12/09/02 -0800, you wrote:
> > After more than three years of being with this group, I've had enough!
> > Pianotech has been turned into a Political battleground, social club,
> > lonely hearts club
> > with some great piano information buried in this garbage and crap!
>
>...And your point would be???????  I think you miss the point here.  That
>"IS" pianotech.  Rather than going through this again below is a repost of
>my commentary on this topic earlier.  Read it.  Then re-read it.  Then
>memorize it.  Then if you decide you don't want to be here, well.... don't
>hit yourself in the fanny on the way out.  The rest of us will still be
>here.
>
>
>Rob Goodale, RPT
>Las Vegas, NV
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>I have been on this list continuously now for about six years.  I have seen
>many names come and go over the years.  Some leave and come back, others
>have never returned.  Frequently some new blood appears.  With so many new
>people it is no wonder that the same topics recycle again and again with
>each new generation.  Sometimes people get upset with each other.  Then it
>passes and all is right again.  "Off topics" have littered the list since
>the beginning.  I suspect they always will.  Sometimes there is humor,
>sometimes they are serious.
>
>We've talked about pianos in general, pianists, technical, tuning,
>rebuilding, customers not paying bills, advertising, public schools,
>universities, budgets, conventions, trade shows, dealers, other technicians,
>insurance, financing, general business topics, cats peeing in pianos, pianos
>in floods, pianos in fires, pianos that should be burned, vandalism, glue,
>strings, hammers, springs, fees, brands, manufacturing, refinishing, wheels,
>lids, bushings, center pins, cleaning, tools, wood, just about anything you
>can thing of.  We've also occasionally discussed politics, off topic humor,
>people, places, food, holidays, computers, money, television, movies,
>drinking, gambling, sex, and rock and roll.
>
>Censorship has also been discussed from the beginning.  It has never
>happened and I think for a very good reason.  The majority of us don't want
>it.  What is the pianotech list?  Well... it's about a bunch of technicians
>who get together in cyber space and have discussions.  We talk on topic,
>(most of the time), and occasionally talk off topic.  Why?  Because we are a
>happy group and we have "conversation" just as if we were in a casual
>setting at a convention with other technicians.  There are no specific rules
>here.  The general topic is pianos.  Sometimes we just goof around a little
>bit and have fun doing it.  It is a "human" environment where people don't
>want to become tech-ish all the time.  We get that enough when we're
>working.
>
>So what does this all mean?  It means, (and this is my opinion but which I
>know it is widely shared), lighten up!  Leave the serious forms to the
>university chat room geeks who have no life to speak , wear pocket
>protectors with a hardware store stuffed in them, and dream about wires and
>gears in their sleep.  We CAN relax and have fun here and we CAN talk
>technical about pianos at the same time.  Take a look at your keyboard for a
>moment.  Just to the right of the "enter" key and just below the "insert"
>key there is another little key that says "Delete".  If a topic arises that
>you don't wish to read or the author of a topic gives you the runs, just
>push it and the message will disappear in .00349276 nano-seconds.  Then you
>will be happy and bubbly again and everything will be right in your world.
>
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