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FWIW the Serge Yahoo list is largely unmoderated, anyone can join and we
have an excellent signal to noise ratio.
I personally don't agree with the arguments for prohibiting membership to
this list.
I see it more as a matter of excluding potential owners from a vital source
of information on the 200e that isn't accessible any other way.

Matt

On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 9:27 AM, Jason Butcher <fastheadache@yahoo.com>wrote:

>
>
> I don't people realize the extent to which the list would change should an
> open membership policy be adopted.
> It fluctuates (usually depending on how many 200e youtube videos are
> published in any given month), but I estimate the ratio of non-user to user
> requests can be as high as 20:1. I am not exactly comfortable sitting in
> judgment of what is often a one line request (or three word - such as
> "patch-cable fetishist" or "ME-WANTY-BUCHLA") as a method of determing
> whether someone is a worthy candidate, but the truth is, it seems the ones I
> don't correctly identify the first time often send a second request.
>
> I'm sure there are those who might make interesting contributions even as
> non-users/owners. However currently, this seems to be the best method of
> balancing the amount of bullsh!t in our inboxes.If one searches the AH
> archives, a hugh amount of 200e information will
> be found, but only a tiny fraction is useful to someone with an
> instrument in front of them.
>
> I've heard from several of you predominantly in support of this method of
> selection, and my inbox is always open...
>
> Respectfully yours,
>
> Jason R. Butcher
>
> ________________________________
> From: ezra buchla <ezra.buchla@gmail.com <ezra.buchla%40gmail.com>>
> To: 200e@yahoogroups.com <200e%40yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, June 2, 2009 10:12:47 PM
> Subject: [200e] Re: lists
>
> i got some replies to this, so:
>
> sorry, i truly didn't mean to dis. actually it seems like the great
> majority
> people on AH and especially muff wiggler, etc. are really really nice and
> worth talking to. i just personally find those forums too exhausting to
> wade
> through; my own problem.
>
> if anyone thinks that it'd make the 200e newsgroup more USEFUL to open it
> to
> whomever... then by all means! it's not my group, and actually i had no
> idea
> it was restricted to 200e owners until this week.
>
> i'd like to meet more people, i just don't need to meet any more jerks.
>
> i'm also interested in building accessible technology, so how bout this for
> an offer: send me a software concept and i will make it...
>
> just like i don't read AH or any other synth forums; i find them, without
> > exception, upsetting and a waste of time. i'd have to focus all my
> attention
> > on the 200e_beta group, which doesn't even have publicly visible
> archives...
> >
> > "elitism" is the philsophy that society would be best served by catering
> > exclusively to the needs of the powerful, wealthy, or talented. this is a
> > repellent concept. i must, however, accept the "pragmatic" realization
> that
> > time and patience is limited compared to the internet's infinite cpacity
> to
> > produce comabtive bullshit.
> >
> >
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