Table manners, Paul and others...

In the last digest Paul E. responded:

>Dale, if that's too complicated for you, I
>don't know what you're doing on this list.

First off, he said it was too complicated, which could have meant for the
public at large, not that it was personal to him. Secondly, if something in
tuning was a complicated issue, where *better* a place to be?

But above and beyond that, it is not your place, Paul, or anyone else's, to
question a person's interest in this list. It is an open forum, and if we
have to listen to you, as we do, we have to listen to everyone.

Unbelievable...

I wrote,

>>Dale, if that's too complicated for you, I
>>don't know what you're doing on this list.

Jon wrote,

>First off, he said it was too complicated, which could have meant for the
>public at large, not that it was personal to him. Secondly, if something in

>tuning was a complicated issue, where *better* a place to be?

>But above and beyond that, it is not your place, Paul, or anyone else's, to

>question a person's interest in this list. It is an open forum, and if we
>have to listen to you, as we do, we have to listen to everyone.

>Unbelievable...

Jon, I was simply agreeing with Darren's response:

>Slap on the wrist Dale! These statements were quite rude and uncalled for.
>This is supposed to be a scholarly forum. If you have some problems with
>Lucy tuning, perhaps you can address them in a scholarly way, to allow for
>real debate. Principles above personalities.

>I my myself no nothing of Lucy Tuning, just proper manners.

and was augmenting it with a bit of "noledge".

Jon wrote,

>First off, he said it was too complicated, which could have meant for the
>public at large, not that it was personal to him. Secondly, if something in

>tuning was a complicated issue, where *better* a place to be?

Agreed! Apparently, Jon, you didn't even read the message I was replying to,
which said,

>Who started this LucyTuning nonsense anyway???

>Extreme delusions of grandeur.

>Right. Someone can behave like a cantankerous old curmudgeon, but phrases
>such as "promoting global harmony" and "having fun with them" will fool
>everyone else into thinking that person is a sort of microtonal cross
>between Mohandas Gandhi and Soupy Sales.

>Never mind the possibility of maybe actually being grateful that someone
>even mentioned your tuning system, which will never become a standard,
>locally much less globally, for any number of years, because it's too
damned
>complicated (plus, it's got a funny name: how about "EthelTuning"??).