Johannes Gebauer wrote: > Is this your first post to the list? I can't remember your name somehow. > You must be one of the owners then? Or what other rights do you have to > complain?
1) No it is not. I've been a member and lightly posting since early 04. Not that it would be relevant, as probably MOST readers are not Finale experts and don't have a lot to offer. Plus as I read the digest, it's rare I see a q which I CAN answer that has not been answered already. 2) Why does it matter if you can remember my name? Would you be less of a dick if you knew me better? 3) I am not one of the owners. 4) Re-read the post in question. My statements were intended tongue-in-cheek, and the only thing I see a need to apologize for is not making that more explicit. That said, what right do I have to complain? As much right as you have to complain - which you have been doing lately with aplomb. See, we're members of an email list. Some members are really knowledgeable and have a lot to offer. Others are less so, but pipe up when they have a question or suggestion. Others still are readers who post rarely. But each is a member of the community. Would you suggest that only the people who want to run for public office should have a say in how your city or town is run? I don't think you'd care for that. Yet your contention that those with the quietest voices have no right to comment on things is rather the same. Again - of COURSE I understand why the Sibelius thread is on-topic. I also know the discussion of off-SHSU archiving is (sorta) on-topic. I have no problem with that. But jeez, even if I was complaining, don't you think it's less annoying to let people complain in one post than to post back each time telling them how they don't have the right? That doubles the posts on nothing. I saw, in the midst of a 53-post digest, a lonely post with a great question. The next 53 post digest, 6 hours later, failed to answer it. I thought that odd, and hoped to help someone get a response, ANY response. Even a "we don't know." I had hoped to couch it in a humorous vein (which, again, I apologize that I failed to accomplish) and all I read from you is post after post of vitriol and sanctimonious attitude. So please save your big-fish-little-pond ego for someone else. I don't care to stroke it. Neal Schermerhorn _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
