Thanks Richard!
Our lives are but a heartbeat, then we, as souls,
go on. But the pianos we restore, no matter how
scrupulously, will be abused and return to dust very
quickly.
I therefore welcome human divergence on this
forum but will scrupulously apply the OT designation
to all non-technical posts, henceforth.
Thump.
> I understand your views, but feel quite comfortable
> with the little bit
> of kidding around we do on the list and my own
> ability to keep things
> jovial as it were. I have been the first to close
> off a discussion (from
> my side) the minute someone starts personalizing any
> subject matter. Tho
> I admit my first year here was a little bumpy
> learning how to do just
> that. And lately I have been pretty clever at adding
> the [OT] designation
> to posts that I responde to that clearly are non
> topical.
>
> As far as keeping religious, political, humourous,
> or even language
> content within acceptable norms. I would submit the
> list does a splendid
> job of regulating itself. A bit is tolerated, but if
> it gets out of hand
> somebody always pipes in... we mumble a bit back and
> forth for a day, and
> then we get back to pianos.
>
> What harm eventually is done to the discussions here
> has far less to do
> with subject matter, and far more to do with
> discussion technique IMHO.
> Personalizing a discussion... any discussion, does
> way more damage then
> what the discussion is about.
>
>
> --
> 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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