[sdiy] Reprinting Electronotes

[Barry Klein]

Anyone who is willing to take subscriptions from 4-500 people, go to the
hassle of answering all the inquiries, go to the post office to pick up a
bunch of registered letters and sign for them, take personal checks, get
money orders in foreign currency and return them, publish the old stuff,
write the new stuff, build the circuits to verify they work, and then teach
classes in a university (or whatever he did), do this without a computer -
deserves the subsequent money for ongoing interest in the work he did.  It
would drive me nuts.

Barry


-----Original Message-----
From: phillip m gallo [mailto:philgallo at attglobal.net]
Sent: Friday, December 13, 2002 4:41 PM
To: bluebear.mail-list at dsl.pipex.com
Cc: synth diy
Subject: RE: [sdiy] Reprinting Electronotes


>But isn't this very mailing list the modern replacement/equivalent for the
>"club" that existed back then? It's certainly not less friendly an era
>unless you choose it to be. And as the Electronotes was built on
>appropriating what had gone before, so could this mailing list. The only
>reason for BH to keep (c) of the electronotes is money, plain and simple.

An interesting point, regarding "modern equivalency" i think you are
probably dead on.

EN was different, however.  It was an edited "club" journal, diatribes
didn't make it into the newsletter unless it was in an issue wrapper where
some "even-handedness" was presented the example i am thinking of is the
ARIES/PAIA dispute where "musicality" was used (by ARIES) as a "metric" in
the old linear vs. exponential debate.

This forum is not edited for periodic publication and is instead a
continuous publication of user provided message threads, which i find to be
topical, interesting (and probably because of the quick community
interaction).

I bet you are right about BH's intentions to exploit EN for $$$.  It's just
my personal opinion that the "return on investment" from the '70's for all
of the efforts he expended (and the impact he had) justifies exactly this.


regards,
p

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