Thanks for your replys to my bizzare questions.

[Bjorn Julin]

>From: Chris MacDonald <macdonald at evenfall.com>
>To: synth-diy at node12b53.a2000.nl

OK, i answer this one in public, but as one list member
allready have mentioned why dont you send this to me
privately instead of going public on the list.

Not that i personnaly care much if its public or private
but some folks on the list prefear to have this sort of
complaint emails personaly directed.

>Sorry, but I can't understand what is professional about the >enjoyment of 
>repeatedly calling fellow list members idiots.

I havent called anyone idiots ""repeatedly"".
If you dont understand it, why bother then!
Use the delete buttom.

>I believe this list owes a lot of its success to the respectful >treatment 
>list members give each other, even when they disagree or >are being 
>humorous.  When has it ever been appropriate on synth-diy >to say that 
>"idiots with idiot questions can go to hell" (even when >speaking in 
>general), or to then directly call someone (especially a <"newcomer") an 
>idiot when they object to such language or fail to <"get" your humor?

No i didnt say that it particullary was newcomers that was idiots,
i just said that the wery few "complaint" emails of the total
amount of replies i got on my two emails was by
""new list subscribers"".

>The list would have disintegrated long ago if such behavior were
>commonplace. I believe the list's civility is one of its great
>strengths, it is at least partly why it succeeds when other lists >fail.

I think you are quit wrong on that conclusion, since as i can
recall it when i started to read this list (in spring 96)there
has been alot of OT and controversially emails.

>Lastly, I doubt it's safe to interpret the silence of the 99% of list
>members who did not speak up as rousing cheers of support.

Now you are making up somthing that are not what it realy is.
I just dont buy that, since you cant know how many replies i got.

Its not my problem that you or others dont understand that the percentage is 
callculated on the amount of replyes! Not on the
numbers of list subscribers.

For example, as one of the complaints emails i got was
about that i have turned this list into a flame war!!!

There is no flame war!I cant see it anywhay, this person even
had bothered to make a special trash bin for people he
dissliked, come on,the whole issue is just plain ridiculus.

On the other side, people, those of you who just dont like some
of my emails or emails from other list subscribers why do you
put so much energy and time to complain?

You cant make me or any one else to write their emails
in such a way that its going to suit you personally.

There is a delete buttom you know.

I since the day i subscribed to synth diy list i have many times writen 
quite controwersially emails and i can only say that
most of them have been most wellcomed by other list members
the times that someone have had a point or to on the
ways i usage the words ha been wery few.

This list has over the years usually been wery tollerant
to what list members have ben writing about but it seams
to have changed a bit , why, no idea but the amount
of list subscribers could be a reason!

Regards
BJ

PS:I really got alot of extraodinary nice replyes
   privately on my emails, more then i expected.
   So trying to pretend that there is silence is
   just ridiculus.

>Bjorn Julin wrote:
> >
> > Yepp,many thanks to 98% of you who replyed and showed the
> > interest for my "Idiot 68K email and the messe report email.
> >
> > Its nice to see that so many of you still are
> > professionals and found enjoyment in my emails. :-)
> >
> > Unfortunately 2% was more happy to make themselfs
> > real idiots, but they where just "newcommers" to
> > synth diy list, so its understandable!
> >
> > Thanks again folks!
> >
> > BJ
> >
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