In a message dated 5/25/2007 5:40:51 PM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> << The "Phil Daley v. The World" thread has become a flame war. >> > > yeah and one side is using silly putty as ammo. Jef: the problem with flame wars--besides the obvious issue of rudeness--is that they always go on 300 posts too long. The positions are staked out pretty clearly in the first e-mail or two, and from then on it's just a pissing contest. The reason I quite consciously didn't name any composers who "have no clue" in my post is that I'm sure I would inevitably list someone else's favorite guy. Then it begins all over again. Let's say, hypothetically, that Phil Daley doesn't really like any music after about Landini. Ask yourself the question, "Does that matter?" If anyone has some sort of obsessive need to convince Phil that Machaut might be OK as well, that's *their* issue, not Phil's. Plus, they can be reasonably sure--having lived in the world for awhile--that their argument is not going to prevail anyway. Speaking as someone who has now added post #301 to the list, here are two pieces of advice: 1) if someone says something OT that you consider stupid, try if possible to let it go (something incorrect about how Finale works is a different issue); 2) if someone needs to tell you how ignorant you are, delete their post. David Lawrence ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ************************************** See what's free at http://www.aol.com. _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
