Klarinet Archive - Posting 000029.txt from 2006/02

From: "Rommel John (Rafi Jochanan) Miller" <rjmiller@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Re: new Mozart finds
Date: Fri, 03 Feb 2006 21:51:02 -0500

Correction! I meant "I do wish we would NOT call each names like
moron" -- That was my mistake, and I take full responsibility for it.

Sorry

Rafi

----- Original Message -----
From: "Rommel John (Rafi Jochanan) Miller" <rjmiller@-----.net>
To: <klarinet@-----.org>
Sent: Friday, February 03, 2006 9:25 PM
Subject: Re: [kl] Re: new Mozart finds

> I do wish we would call each other names like "moron"
> or "nut case" or worse, it really does not get us anywhere
> and it really does belittle those of us who have to deal with mental
health
> issues and epithets like this almost every day.
>
> Hearing them really does hurt, and they belittle and demean.
>
> If anything we should be here to work on helping one another,
> building each other up and encouraging those who might have doubts
> or questions about their playing, doesn't that make sense?
>
> I mean I am really and truly sorry I said the things I said in some past
> posts, but what is said is said and on the record, and all I can do now is
> try to make things better by trying to mend fences and post better, and
more
> level-headed posts.
>
> That's all really, let's be a board of Clarinet enthusists, and not
> name-callers. Let's be constructive and pro-active, rather than
> de-constructive and re-active.
>
> Lets all try to just repect one another and get along with one another for
> the sake of decency, and civility, and that funny thing called
"netiquette."
>
> Shalom and gut shabbos,
>
> Rommel John Miller
> (Hebrew name: Raphael Jochanan ben Avraham Miller)
> 308 Dale Avenue
> Baltimore, MD 21206
> 410-668-4784
> 410-967-8994 (cell)
> rjmiller@-----.net
>
> "Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend,
> inside of a dog, it's too dark to read."
> ---"Groucho" Marx
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Rien Stein" <rstein@-----.nl>
> To: "klarinetlijst" <klarinet@-----.org>
> Sent: Friday, February 03, 2006 8:07 PM
> Subject: [kl] Re: new Mozart finds
>
>
> > Last Saturday I sent an e-mail to this list expressing my doubts as to
the
> > "discovery" Dan Leeson announced with respect to Mozart properties.
> >
> > Monday night I watched a beautifully played performance of the Gran
> > Partit(t)a. After that I opened my mail, and one of the first things I
> read
> > was Dan's answer to my mail. Dan thought it necessary to cal me a Moron.
I
> > was so surprised and upset I took my dictionary to check whether this
word
> > meant what I thought it meant. It did. I immediately sent a rather sharp
> > e-mail to this list. This mail came back as being undeliverable (a
problem
> I
> > often have with this list). It was already late at night, and in a way I
> > felt relieved it wouldn't arrive.
> >
> > Tonight I read my mail since that moment, and suddenly there was -- you
> > guess it already -- exactly this same mail in the digest, followed by
the
> > mail I sent Saturday night! I have my MSc in computer science, but this
is
> > one of those ununderstandable things: there is no virus in my computer,
> nor
> > any other thing unhealthy (I checked that already), yet this mail and a
> > previous one suddenly arrive somewhere they should not arrive anymore.
> >
> > I am NOT going to offer Dan my apologies. I still doubt the reality of
his
> > discovery. Someone wrote me I was arrogant to doubt Dan's announcement,
as
> > he is one of the greatest experts on Mozart. That is not what I
discussed:
> I
> > cannot judge that, although I think he is an expert on WAM. Rereading
the
> > pagelong journal's article however, my doubts are even strengthened. I
> will
> > not elaborate this, read the article critically yourself. And I still am
> > offended by Dan's calling me a moron, I think HE should apologise, he
> > started calling names! He won't, I am convinced.
> >
> > Have a good night.
> >
> > Rien
> >
> >
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