Please stay "on topic":

In my opinion, too many recent postings to various listserves to
which I subscribe have had nothing at all to do with the purpose for
the list. A good example (but certainly not the only one I might
find) is

Message: 1
Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:19:05 -0700
From: Kraig Grady <kraiggrady@...>
Subject: democrats absent

I don't mean to say that this is not a subject worth your time or
mine, but I think that this list is not the place to hold such
discussions. Please do others the courtesy of staying "on topic"
when posting to lists.

Thanks,

Steve Langford

hi Steve,

> From: slangford97 [mailto:s@...]
> Sent: Sunday, July 20, 2003 7:56 AM
> To: metatuning@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [metatuning] Please stay "on topic":
>
>
> In my opinion, too many recent postings to various listserves to
> which I subscribe have had nothing at all to do with the purpose for
> the list. A good example (but certainly not the only one I might
> find) is
>
> Message: 1
> Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:19:05 -0700
> From: Kraig Grady <kraiggrady@...>
> Subject: democrats absent
>
>
> I don't mean to say that this is not a subject worth your time or
> mine, but I think that this list is not the place to hold such
> discussions. Please do others the courtesy of staying "on topic"
> when posting to lists.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Steve Langford

umm ... the reason why this particular list was created
was so that those of us who cyber-know each other from
the tuning list would have a forum where we could discuss
anything *not* having to do with tuning.

i don't think that would exclude Kraig's post.
essentially, anything other than tuning is on-topic
for this list.

-monz

----- Original Message -----
From: "slangford97" <s@...>

> In my opinion, too many recent postings to various listserves to
> which I subscribe have had nothing at all to do with the purpose for
> the list. A good example (but certainly not the only one I might
> find) is
>
> Message: 1
> Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:19:05 -0700
> From: Kraig Grady <kraiggrady@...>
> Subject: democrats absent
>
>
> I don't mean to say that this is not a subject worth your time or
> mine, but I think that this list is not the place to hold such
> discussions. Please do others the courtesy of staying "on topic"
> when posting to lists.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Steve Langford

The META Tuning list is for everything NOT on topic on the main tuning
list!!!!

/metatuning/?yguid=70544219

FOOL!

* David Beardsley
* microtonal guitar
* http://biink.com/db

Steve,

--- In metatuning@yahoogroups.com, "slangford97" <s@T...> wrote:
> In my opinion, too many recent postings to various listserves to
> which I subscribe have had nothing at all to do with the purpose for
> the list.

I'll just amplify what Monz had to say: metatuning is a list *specifically for* posts that are off-topic from tuning.

The history behind this little mini-list is that off-topic posts on the tuning list were getting on peoples nerves, but some of the discussions *were* of interest to some of the members. The idea of the metatuning list was a place where people could 'take it outside' - continue a thread that had strayed from tuning, or people from the tuning community could, still as a group, discuss matters other than tuning in a forum (rather than private emails).

You could very easily drop this list from your subscriptions and *not* end up missing anything of tuning importance. However, this list does have a function in a community that has been around for a few years, and should remain as it is.

Cheers,
Jon

--- In metatuning@yahoogroups.com, "David Beardsley" <db@b...> wrote:
> The META Tuning list is for everything NOT on topic on the main tuning
> list!!!!
>
> /metatuning/?yguid=70544219
>
> FOOL!

C'mon, Dave, that's a little over the top. I think Steve is a fairly new member to the various tuning lists, and the description at the top of meta is hardly a complete and accurate description of what its original intent was. I'm sure he's got the right idea now, however...

Cheers,
Jon