Mellotronists

<< Does anyone remember the crazy woman that was on the list a few years ago? 
>>

ah yes, diane wasn't it? with a load of exclamation marks that occasionally 
looked like a keyboard. near-sighted, medicated mood-swings, and for some 
reason, a passing interest in our little community. oh, happy days. 
I also remember getting dave k all steamed up over whether or not one should 
bother degaussing the tach head, it being a tape-head like the other thirty 
five, but also being next to magnetised parts...... that was the time before 
last that he left. 
then brian "cookbook" kehew left, because "we" were fighting about something 
else.

it appears that we can't be allowed to discuss things of a technical or 
scientific nature without someone either coming over all smart-arsed and 
final-word-on-the-subject about it, or chucking mud. sometimes both. that can 
be quite fun sometimes, but not when commerce and livelihoods are involved. 
then it can get legal.

well, fuck it. that's not what we're here for, is it? 
I would prefer that any sales or support issues be freely discussed on and by 
the list, but if this undignified spectacle is going to happen every time 
then I'd rather go to the pub and watch a real fight.... 
still, we'll all be laughing about this in six months. 
dictionary definitions of fascism on the 'tron list? fantastic; this goes 
into my (eventual) thesis on "confusion and/or offence arising from 
carelessly conversational use of electronic mailing systems due to 
accidentally-assumed-familiarity with correspondents and/or the medium, and 
why counter-measures need to come from people and not automation". it won't 
take long to write it with material like this.


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