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[disklavier] Recruitment letter to DUG Group.

1999-12-22 by Todd Muncy

Last night at midnight our group had 57 members. About an hour later, I was annoyed by even more BS about volume control on the DUG board. Then I waded through yet more of the standard admonitions about Yamaha spending millions of dollars maintaining the DUG e-mail address and thereby paying for the right to forbid price discussions etc. This caused me to explode with a sarcastic stream of consciousness posting on DUG. Now, less than 24 hours later, we are +27 and now have 84 members. Wow, I should get angry at bed-wetters and whiners more often! By the way, don't worry about the personal fortune I am ripping through funding this site, you guys are worth every penny of it.

Does anybody know how many people subscribe to DUG?

One matter I definitely want to hear from the group on. We would have 85 members except for one application still awaiting my OK. It comes from MWisner@... . I don't know Mark, but I sure do know that domain. Am I admitting a spy if I approve him? Realistically, he could easily back door his way in as Innocent@... and I would approve it. If there is a strong consensus to keep him out, somebody better send me a complete enemies list to check against our membership list. Not realistic I suppose. I'll sit on the application until I hear some opinions.

[disklavier] Re: Recruitment letter to DUG Group.

1999-12-22 by Terry Holek

Come on Todd - maybe Mark is getting a little tired of the "official"
Yamaha commercial selections and has a stash full of things he wants to
contribute.  I say, without hesitation, let him in.

Since I'm a very new (1 hour) member I thank you for your effort and
time in getting this thing going, but I don't see any point in becoming
exclusionary.  Egroups.com is a general service for anyone, and there
is nothing stopping someone else from setting up another disklavier
group to compete with "yours".  We don't need that sort of thing.  Lets
all have fun and not get too excited if there may be some "spies" among
us.

"todd muncy" <tmunc-@...> wrote: 
original article:http://www.egroups.com/group/disklavier/?start=102
> Last night at midnight our group had 57 members.  About an hour
later, I was annoyed by even more BS about volume control on the DUG
board.  Then I waded through yet more of the standard admonitions about
Yamaha spending millions of dollars maintaining the DUG e-mail address
and thereby paying for the right to forbid price discussions etc.  This
caused me to explode with a sarcastic stream of consciousness posting
on DUG.  Now, less than 24 hours later, we are +27 and now have 84
members.  Wow, I should get angry at bed-wetters and whiners more
often!  By the way, don't worry about the personal fortune I am ripping
through funding this site, you guys are worth every penny of it.
> 
> Does anybody know how many people subscribe to DUG?  
> 
> One matter I definitely want to hear from the group on.  We would
have 85 members except for one application still awaiting my OK.  It
comes from MWisner@... .  I don't know Mark, but I sure do know
that domain.  Am I admitting a spy if I approve him?  Realistically, he
could easily back door his way in as Innocent@... and I would
approve it.  If there is a strong consensus to keep him out,  somebody
better send me a complete enemies list to check against our membership
list.  Not realistic I suppose.  I'll sit on the application until I
hear some opinions.
> 
>

[disklavier] Re: Recruitment letter to DUG Group.

1999-12-22 by Todd Muncy

I agree Terry, I think it was obvious from the way I phrased the question.
However, if someone from the Harry Fox Agency wants in, that's where I draw
the line!
-----Original Message-----
From: Terry Holek <tjholek@...>
To: disklavier@... <disklavier@...>
Date: Tuesday, December 21, 1999 10:30 PM

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>Come on Todd - maybe Mark is getting a little tired of the "official"
>Yamaha commercial selections and has a stash full of things he wants to
>contribute.  I say, without hesitation, let him in.
>
>Since I'm a very new (1 hour) member I thank you for your effort and
>time in getting this thing going, but I don't see any point in becoming
>exclusionary.  Egroups.com is a general service for anyone, and there
>is nothing stopping someone else from setting up another disklavier
>group to compete with "yours".  We don't need that sort of thing.  Lets
>all have fun and not get too excited if there may be some "spies" among
>us.
>
>
>"todd muncy" <tmunc-@...> wrote:
>original article:http://www.egroups.com/group/disklavier/?start=102
>> Last night at midnight our group had 57 members.  About an hour
>later, I was annoyed by even more BS about volume control on the DUG
>board.  Then I waded through yet more of the standard admonitions about
>Yamaha spending millions of dollars maintaining the DUG e-mail address
>and thereby paying for the right to forbid price discussions etc.  This
>caused me to explode with a sarcastic stream of consciousness posting
>on DUG.  Now, less than 24 hours later, we are +27 and now have 84
>members.  Wow, I should get angry at bed-wetters and whiners more
>often!  By the way, don't worry about the personal fortune I am ripping
>through funding this site, you guys are worth every penny of it.
>>
>> Does anybody know how many people subscribe to DUG?
>>
>> One matter I definitely want to hear from the group on.  We would
>have 85 members except for one application still awaiting my OK.  It
>comes from MWisner@... .  I don't know Mark, but I sure do know
>that domain.  Am I admitting a spy if I approve him?  Realistically, he
>could easily back door his way in as Innocent@... and I would
>approve it.  If there is a strong consensus to keep him out,  somebody
>better send me a complete enemies list to check against our membership
>list.  Not realistic I suppose.  I'll sit on the application until I
>hear some opinions.
>>
>>
>
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[disklavier] Re: Recruitment letter to DUG Group.

2000-01-04 by Taxi

President Kennedy said "Keep your friends close and your enemies closer". I think it is important to have Yamaha staff part of this group, if for anything else but to add balance. In addition, maybe he will go back to his employer and let them know the negatives as well as the positives.

Me for one, I think the invention is a miracle. Had it been here 25 years ago when I was a struggling Opera student at Boston Conservatory, I venture to say I would have had a lot more rehearsal time. As it was I had to pay $50 an hour for a coach. It would have been great to have my Yamaha back then.

A dream:

Have the greatest piano accompianists record all the lieder and arias. Build a studio with nothing but Yamahas. Students can come in and check out Dalton Baldwin's accompaniment of "Der Hirt Auf Dem Felsen", or rehearse any opera and learn their parts. Saves rehearsal time. Saves face. Great teaching tool.

What a great dream!!! Anyway, that's my dream.

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----- Original Message -----

From: Todd Muncy

To: Disklavier File Swappers

Sent: Tuesday, December 21, 1999 9:27 PM

Subject: [disklavier] Recruitment letter to DUG Group.

Last night at midnight our group had 57 members. About an hour later, I was annoyed by even more BS about volume control on the DUG board. Then I waded through yet more of the standard admonitions about Yamaha spending millions of dollars maintaining the DUG e-mail address and thereby paying for the right to forbid price discussions etc. This caused me to explode with a sarcastic stream of consciousness posting on DUG. Now, less than 24 hours later, we are +27 and now have 84 members. Wow, I should get angry at bed-wetters and whiners more often! By the way, don't worry about the personal fortune I am ripping through funding this site, you guys are worth every penny of it.

Does anybody know how many people subscribe to DUG?

One matter I definitely want to hear from the group on. We would have 85 members except for one application still awaiting my OK. It comes from MWisner@... . I don't know Mark, but I sure do know that domain. Am I admitting a spy if I approve him? Realistically, he could easily back door his way in as Innocent@hotmail.com and I would approve it. If there is a strong consensus to keep him out, somebody better send me a complete enemies list to check against our membership list. Not realistic I suppose. I'll sit on the application until I hear some opinions.

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