[Harp-L] RE: no harp content- peaceful rebuttal to bill hines

["Bill Hines" <billhines4@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

First off, apologies. I screwed up too, the list owner had *also* said
in his post to not complain publicly here, to just send him a note. I
should have done that. This is the result. I wanted to apologize
publicly and let it die, hopefully.

I'm here for harp content. I do other reading to keep up with the
world's problems, the world's goodness, social issues, "our planet
earth" (yes I belong to Sierra, btw), health, financial advice,
politics, other types of good music. I don't really want that here.
That's called spam. Plus, it leads to discontent - for every
harmonica-playing lover of our planet earth, we might have a logger
harmonica player here (just kidding!). 

You are a very solid contributing member and I have learned much from
your posts (and enjoy your music). But that doesn't give you the right
to use this list and it's members as a sounding board for your social
conscious or to push it on us. I didn't say that you were flooding us
with announcements, only that to allow this sort of thing, with
thousands of list members could lead to that. We all have a cause or
two, I'm sure :-) I didn't say your motives are selfish, just that the
content isn't appropriate.

We can't all shape the list to what we want as far as humor or whatever,
but I think the rules are fair so we should stick to them. Again,
apologies, and I'm a fan. I think my post was poorly worded, I didn't
mean to come off as being upset. Hope to see you live sometime!

Bill

-----Original Message-----
From: randysinger [mailto:randy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Friday, May 27, 2005 12:47 PM
To: Bill Hines
Cc: harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: no harp content- peaceful rebuttal to bill hines

bill,

sorry you are so offended you wrote that post.

First of all, I doubt you looked at the link i posted.

Had you done so, you would have seen i had no selfish motives 
involved-- I was not promoting any product directly or indirectly 
related to me. It was done for altruistic and philanthropic reasons 
only. I am not "flooding you with non-harp related CD announcements."

My entire life is built around the harmonica, I am a contributing 
member with many posts as I advocate the harmonica thru my endorsements 
and research with Digitech, audix, hohner and hering.

For one time, i posted a non harp post about our planet earth.

You see, the harmonica may be the most important issue to harmonica 
players, but every now and then, it is good to remember that somethings 
are more important.

I agree, we must keep it harp oriented, but bill, there is so much 
extraneous humor that has nothing to do with harmonica, i tire of the 
forced harmonica jokes and humor that takes up the band width, I just 
skip it and go on.

perhaps you should complain that humor does not belong on the blog as 
well? How does that help a harmonica player?

I am sure you are a good guy, i just think you should think a little 
deeper into this before you shoot me.

ps, Don't worry, I won't do it again...............

lovingly,

randy