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David G Dixon dixon at mail.ubc.ca Thu Nov 5 01:41:03 CET 20:<o:p> </o:p></p>
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<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>and the owner is unwilling to sell fresh copies,<o:p> </o:p></p>
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<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>doesn't want to sell it,<o:p> </o:p></p>
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{ BERNIE: “unwilling to” and “doesn't want to” where instead “is unable to” is more consistent with all facts.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>Ignorant assumptions – insensitive and disrespectful. }<o:p> </o:p></p>
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Gordonjcp gordonjcp at gjcp.net<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Thu Nov 5 12:56:19 CET 2020:<o:p> </o:p></p>
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Why would you need as many as 100 people?<o:p> </o:p></p>
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{<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>BERNIE: ask Jimmy and those on the MW thread:<o:p> </o:p></p>
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<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Jimmy Moore jamoore84 at gmail.com Tue Nov 3 18:53:43 CET 2020<o:p> </o:p></p>
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<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>100 people typing out 65 pages each doesn't sound all that bad.
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<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Even if it were 10,000 hours, 100 people contributing 100 hours each spread over something like 1 year sounds... completely reasonable.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
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{ back to Gordon} You've heard of this "Linux" thing, right?<o:p> </o:p></p>
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<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>[BERNIE: Relevance to issue here is what?}<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
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Okay, so what do you actually want?<o:p> </o:p></p>
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{BERNIE: based on the top item in this thread, I asked Ben if I could send people looking for used EN to the Marketplace here. He said YES.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>I asked for nothing else.}<o:p> </o:p></p>
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Are you happy enough with the status quo where people sell on the only existing copies of Electronotes?<o:p> </o:p></p>
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{BERNIE:<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>There are roughly 4500 copies!<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>Good grief!}<o:p> </o:p></p>
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Do you want more people to read it?<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span><o:p> </o:p></p>
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{BERNIE:<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>I want more people<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>to learn<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>from it, not<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>just<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>to COLLECT it and then to suppose<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>they know<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>the material.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>And to not complain that<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>a no-effort path (one click and FREE) is being withheld.}<o:p> </o:p></p>
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Given that it seems to be one of the most jealously hoarded collections of documentation going, and I've never even seen what's in it, why would I bother to fork out hard cash for a tatty old second- or third- or fourth-hand copy?<o:p> </o:p></p>
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{BERNIE: never even seen?<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>1/3 is free online!<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>“Tatty old” reeks of style-over-substance<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">BrightBoy jdec at mindspring.com Thu Nov 5 17:54:18 CET 2020:</span><o:p style="font-size: 11pt; font-style: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: inherit;"> </o:p></p>
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I just had another idea in chatting with another SDIY member on FB.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>Perhaps Bernie should donate the entire EN collection to the Audio Engineering Society (AES)<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>I can't imagine them turning that away and would want to see it archived.<o:p> </o:p></p>
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{BERNIE:<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>I can’t imagine them not sending a polite “No Thanks You” – after they stop laughing . }<o:p> </o:p></p>
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2020-11-05 o 05:20, BrightBoy:<o:p> </o:p></p>
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> He's at least 72.{BERNIE: try 75]<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span><o:p> </o:p></p>
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> He could die of Covid-19 at a moments notice. { BERNIE: or get hit by a bus}<o:p> </o:p></p>
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> Does he have doomsday plan for Electronotes?<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>
{BERNIE: if it’s doomsday – who cares!}<o:p> </o:p></p>
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> Also, why isn't he selling paper copies right now?<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>{BERNIE : It’s Chronic Lyme if it’s any of your business.}<o:p> </o:p></p>
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> I don't see an explanation other than assumed/implied covid concerns. {BERNIE: If you took the trouble to consider the particular timing you would see that your assumption,<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>like all assumptions, involves the risk of appearing foolish.}<o:p> </o:p></p>
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