200e

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





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From: ezra buchla <ezra.buchla@gmail.com>
To: 200e@yahoogroups.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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