LIST CENSORSHIP - Put it in perspective!

[Richard Brekne]

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A fine post which echos my own sentiments to the nth degree
and then some.

RicB

Robert Goodale wrote:

> Well... my personal piece of mind: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, of 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. Enjoy life more often.  Trust me, it will be more
> fun that way. Rob Goodale, RPTLas Vegas, NV
>




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Richard Brekne
RPT, N.P.T.F.
UiB, Bergen, Norway
mailto:rbrekne@broadpark.no
http://home.broadpark.no/~rbrekne/ricmain.html


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