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>Do you guys
>even read the tuning list?
>
>OK, imagine someone who doesn't even know what tuning is reading
>these arguments... here's what it's like... it's like a bunch of
>nerds talking about who would win if Spiderman were to fight
>Superman.
>

Yeah, maybe a little.

But two things:

One, anytime a newbie pops up on the tuning list, and says, "What the @#$%
are you all talking about?" there are always a flurry of responses from
lots of people, many of them helpful directions to places where the newbie
can learn about tuning . . . . including all of the jargon, yes, but also
about stuff they can use in actual pieces. There's never any replies like,
"Use the @#$%@#$% faq, you dweeb!!" or the like.

Two, I came to the list(s) in 2000, I believe, and I've learned. . . well,
I've learned basically all I know about tuning and microtonality from
these lists, and the web-pages of its practitioners (many of which
(Monzo's dictionary, for example) were developed out of discussions
here(s)).

I don't know why anyone bothers making these silly complaints every 3
months or so. Anytime I don't want to be following the "bickering", I
just skim over the digests at 5000 mph, and it's no sweat off my back.

In fact, this is how I usually read the lists. Once in a while, I'll read
a post by Margo or Paul or Dan, or whoever, in detail, and really try to
figure it out, and then %90 of the time, I learn something that might be
useful to my composing down the line.

So. . . . . .whatever.