Looney tuning [tuning list archive]

I had a looney idea that I bet many of you have thought of, if not
discussed. (Since no turn is unstoned here at the Tuning List).

Since David Doty at 1/1 and others are always looking for articles on
tuning...

AND, since the Tuning List is such a "happening" place, d'accord??

Why doesn't somebody just assemble articles, edited with commentary,
from the various threads here?? This HAS to have been discussed before.

It seems there are books and books here... there just needs to be some
"expert" correlation....Erlich, Doty, whomever.

Is this crazy, or been discussed and dismissed? And, if so, why??

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Joseph Pehrson

>Since David Doty at 1/1 and others are always looking for articles on
>tuning...
>
>AND, since the Tuning List is such a "happening" place, d'accord??
>
>Why doesn't somebody just assemble articles, edited with commentary,
>from the various threads here?? This HAS to have been discussed before.

It's a nice idea, but the problem is that most posts aren't article
quality. I don't mean that in a bad way; I think it stems from the
nature of the beasts. When you put something in a journal like 1/1,
it ought to have met some sort of peer-review. But mailing lists are
at their best, IMHO, when they are used as the place where peer review
is done. The truth sort-of materializes from the stream of consciousness
of the list.

The final product in this sort of situation is a FAQ. FAQs, IMHO, are
one of the greatest resources of our age. But they require an editor,
not just to add commentary, but to carefully re-trace and summarize
threads. That means time, and lots of it. Which I guess, is the reason
we don't yet have a FAQ.

-Carl