Okay, I seem to have started a tempest in a teapot here. I joined this list serve a week ago. There were days when all I saw where lists of Sibelius this and Sibelius that. As a newcomer I was beginning to believe this was a Sibelius list and that I had joined the wrong one. I thought, okay, this is a general music software discussion site. Then Michael Lawler and Ken Folwer complained and I realized what was wrong.
I seem to have offended a great many people with my endorsement of Michael Lawler and Ken Folwer's opinions. Is this how it works here? Only well-known names are allowed to publish complaints? If anyone else does, they are "lurkers" and "thread cops"? Anyhow, let's drop the whole thing. In peace. Ron Ronald J Brown -----Original Message----- From: David W. Fenton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: July 12, 2005 6:58 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Finale] Is this a Finale or Sibelius list? On 12 Jul 2005 at 18:20, Darcy James Argue wrote: > On 12 Jul 2005, at 6:10 PM, ronan wrote: > > > I must admit, I was surprised to see all the Sibelius notes on a > > Finale site. It's sort of like having a site for Windows users and > > having it taken over by Mac users. Or GM taken over by Ford owners. > > I'm glad Sibelius users like their product and want to talk about > > it, but I am not interested in reading them either. > > Then don't. Did any of the thread subjects lack the word "Sibelius" in them? > Seriously, what is the point of this thread? The Sibelius discussion > was directly related to the future of Finale and the kind of features > and approach we'd like to see Finale emulate. If that's not an > appropriate topic for discussion, then what is? > > And why is it always the lurkers who never contribute solutions to > Finale problems (or contribute to the discussion in any way > whatsoever) who feel entitled to come out of the woodwork to complain > about allegedly off-topic discussions? Who died and made you thread > cop? This is what makes me shake my head, too. The same people who contribute most of the Finale-related content seem to be the ones who were generating all the Sibelius-related content. Why is it, then, that people whose names I don't recognize (i.e., they don't post often, if at all) feel they have some grounds for criticizing what the people who *are* posting have chosen to discuss? If you don't like the current topics, then START A FINALE-RELATED THREAD. This even leaves aside the fact that all of that content was associated with the very relevant issue of "how does Sibelius stack up to Finale?" I am quite glad that we have Sibelius users on the list who were kind enough to respond to those of us who had specific questions about how Sibelius works. It helps us make a much more objective evaluation when we have the explanations of people who have a deep understanding of the competitor program. -- David W. Fenton http://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton Associates http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc All non-quoted content (c) David W. Fenton, all rights reserved _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
