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> "what would a setup like that go for these days? > what did it cost > you when you initially set it up?" are pretty > wasteful of people's > time. through list members' help i was pointed towards many great deals on gear and have saved quite a chunk of change going on recommendations. i agree it is important to do some independent looking, but these kinds of lists are designed for discussion purposes...and the spread of knowledge and expertise. > I answered them out of kindness, but quite > frankly my first > reaction was to respond with a wisecrack. nothing wrong with a wisecrack on a list...they are quite entertaining (as long as they don't become hostile, but at times even those are entertaining), but for someone who posts as regularly as you do, i don't think that keeping up with the volume of this list (even the pointless posts) is a problem for you. and wisecracks are just as much a waste of bandwidth and time as are silly questions (if not more). > I think > you'll find that > you get more useful information out of a greater > number of list > members if you try to answer the obvious stuff for > yourself first. try being the key word here...searching through even the archives of this listserve has proved pretty pointless and time consuming. i find i get answers much more quickly by asking people who know the info off-hand. i think you should take it as a compliment that i am seeking advice from you for what will most likely turn into a 3,000 dollar gear shopping spree (yeah, that's right, i actually care about the studio gear that you use and recommend as opposed to most of the others in your life who hear about it constantly but could care less - not to make any deliberate assumptions about the people that you spend your time with - and believe it or not, but i actually also am interested in hearing what you do with your gear, as opposed to all of the people who hear it but couldn't care less about it). i appreciate you taking the time out to answer my questions, but if you don't want to answer them, then don't...that's the great part about a listserve and email in general, you can delete messages without even reading them...as i'm sure many people are already doing to every message with this subject header. fighting about wasting time is the greatest way to waste time! i love this list! e va n __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - online filing with TurboTax http://taxes.yahoo.com/