AW: I just spent a few hours........

[Haible Juergen]

	>To take a closer example: How would
	>you feel if there was a regular on synth-diy who
	>ranted at length about how analog technology is
	>dead, dead, dead, and only a damn fool or a
	>lunatic would build an analog synth? 

I'd tell him I'm one of these fools and I am quite happy to be one (;->).

If someone really shouts into my ears, or attacks me in a personal way, I
can get quite nasty, too.

I have cancelled my KEYS subscription because their amount of
misinformation. It's funny, I once wrote them a reader's letter and never
got a reply; now that I cancelled my subscription they wrote *me* and asked
me to - you guess it - write a letter and explain why I stop buying their
magazine. Ha !

In general, when I correct (or rather add to) something in a discussion on
this synth-diy list, I am happy when people do *not* get the impression that
I feel superior, that I am smug, or that I am a schoolmaster. It's not easy
to avoid such an impression, especially when I only have the time to post a
short "wrong" or "no, not at all" sometimes.

Hey, writing this down, I am hypocritical. I once was tempted to write down
a collection of one month's errors in KEYS, just to see if I can fill an A4
page. (I haven't actually, but I was close (;->) )

The point is that it is really *easy* to write a devastating reply to a
person that showed an obvious lack of  knowledge. Especially when you're in
a community where you have some reputation. Some time ago some guy whose
name I forgot came up on AH with a statement that some of my work (the
linear detuning stuff) was nothing but "myth". I really *enjoyed* writing
down a spiced answer that showed the error he made, and made fun of his
calling me a mythmaker. I didn't get any reply from him, and I really didn't
expect any answer, because I could not think of any possible answer. And in
retrospect, this in nothing I can be proud of. I've just had a few moments
of satisfaction, probably made myself an enemy, and failed to give this
person the chance to learn something and keep communicating.
That's me. So commenting on your letter, I'm probably more reflecting my own
behaviour than yours - as we all do sometimes.

> A few months ago, on the newsgroup rec.audio.tubes,
> some guy did exactly that [...] He was VERY aggressive [...]
> 
But that wasn't the same person you quoted from the AH archives, was it ?

	>My apologies if anyone was offended by the previous
	>message. 

I think the only one who was offended, and who can accept an
apology, was the one whom you attacked. I myself was not offended,
just a little confused what the hell was going on.

	JH.