Klarinet Archive - Posting 000130.txt from 2000/10

From: rgarrett@-----.edu
Subj: Re: [kl] Re: Flame wars and clarinets
Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2000 10:44:47 -0400

At 10:02 AM 10/3/2000 -0400, you wrote:
>Greetings to all:
>I am one of the nameless lurkers to whom Mr. Pay referred in an earlier
posting,
>and I take no offense to that. I
[snip]
>Neither I nor most of the other readers here give
>a rat's arse who said what to whom, we are here to learn how to be better
>clarinetists and better musicians (and better ambassadors of the clarinet
to the
>rest of the world).

Dave,

Of course, I always appreciate your posts - but I do have a question for
you.....

Let's say you had not been nameless but had been attacked personally - and
without any reason other than to prove that your opinion mattered little -
and (just to spcie it up a bit more) if such attacks continued in the form
of little snipes here and there regarding you as a person - even when you
were not even remotely involved in a discussion - would you be so quick to
remain silent? Would you leave the list? Would you ask politely that such
an attack stop - and then - if it did not - what would you do?

Lurking is ok - but there is no risk in lurking. It is much easier to sit
back and watch and then jump in and correct those who are in the trenches
of discussion tying to provide some kind of information/perspective (I am
not complaining that you are putting anyone down Dave.....) by saying, you
don't mind if they were flamed......

Just another perspective on an otherwise quiet Tuesday morning.

Roger

Roger Garrett
Professor of Clarinet
Director, Symphonic Winds
Head, Recording Studio
Illinois Wesleyan University
School of Music
Bloomington, IL 61702-2900
(309) 556-3268

"A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes
another's."
Jean Paul Richter (1763-1825)

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