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Please excuse this lurker for making a minor timely administrative
request. I suppose I should've woven myself more completely into the
social fabric here before making such a pretentious and unreasonable
query.
I hope that Loopers-Delight always stays the same with no changes or
updates to protocol. What passed muster 20 years ago is surely good
enough for today, don't you think? This list has no moderator, why
should it have an administrator? I'll see if I can get a monochrome
display and convert the messages to base2 so that I can get the REAL
binary feel for what's going on in the world of like-minded musicians. I
might learn something invaluable in the process (though I really long
for an animated GIF file of a little rubber ducky with a funny smile
attached so I can graphically see the messages and group them easily
with MSN 8). Actually, can I modify my request? Could Kim please just
draw a picture that represents each posting? I think this one could well
be characterized as a sinking boat (not sure what color), but I don't
want to taint his imagination - so strike that.... ;)
Sorry, baiting the patron is bad and I will stop....
Seriously though, I like this list and I'm not planning to pack up my
Duplo's and storm off. I respect Kim for his efforts + investments and
don't mean to denigrate those things. I've learned an awful lot from the
kind folks here + hope to eventually know what the heck an EDP or a
Repeater can do (or whatever the next live looping device might be).
I've listened to a few tracks that have been mentioned here
(particularly those of Andre LaFosse) and found a whole different
intriguing side of looping (I'm one of those awful SOFTWARE composition
Loopers) to look into. Thanks for having me!
I will set up multiple lame ass filters as I can see there is a pedantic
and stubborn resistance to a simple centralized solution to e-mail
sorting and management for this list.
Scott (the moron)
Kim Flint wrote:
> no, you are not going to like hearing this, but it is an anti-moron
>thing.
>
> Mailing lists have been running on the internet for probably 20 years or
> more. It used to be that no lists had idiot features like prefixes added
>on
> the subject line. That is because it used to be that most of the people
> using the internet were at least bright enough to figure out how to use
> their email program, and could set up filters to do what they wanted with
> their email. There was no need for such nonsense.
>
> In the past few years, just about everybody got on the internet,
>including
> all the stupid people. Since the stupid users turned out to be either too
> dumb or too lazy to create email filters, plus they whine a lot, many
>list
> owners gave in and added all sorts of extra crap to their lists to help
>the
> morons continue to be morons.
>
> However, I find within myself a strong aversion to being a
>moron-enabler. I
> rather believe that people getting forced to learn something might end up
> being better for it. I also don't see why I should do a lot of extra work
> to add a feature that everybody already has the ability to do with their
> mail program. If this causes a few morons get frustrated and leave the
>list
> (assuming they can figure out how to do that), that doesn't really seem
> like a bad thing to me.
>
> kim
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