source file: mills2.txt Date: Mon, 2 Dec 1996 08:29:42 -0800 Subject: From McLaren From: John Chalmers From: mclaren Subject: 1/1 -- A forum subscriber recently described the irregular publication schedule of 1/1, the journal of the Just Intonation Network, as "mail fraud." People, this is SYMPTOMATIC of the kind of laziness and ingratitude that characterizes all too many members of this tuning forum. The fact that David Doty has kept the journal 1/1 going is a testament to his fortitude and perseverence. This is an heroic act. 1/1 is essentially a one-person operation and there is *nothing* harder in the world than continuing to do what you *know* must be done even though everyone else has abandoned hi/r support. Instead of criticizing David Doty, you people ought to be down on your knees thanking him for continuing to do a thankless job with no pay and no praise and no help. Instead of thinking up ways to verbally attack him, you ought to be thinking of superlatives with which to praise him. How many of *YOU* would have the guts and the perseverence to continue with such a thankless job? How many of *YOU* would continue to bust your humps editing and mailing and soliciting subscriptions for and coordinating lists of just intonation concerts and publications for a magazine whose subscribers couldn't even bother to get off their butts and submit an adequate number of articles? And if you don't like 1/1's irregular publication schedule, how about this? Why don't you forum subscribers get up off your fat lazy asses and *help* David Doty put the magazine out? How about that? Would *that* ever occur to any of you? How about taking your finger out (as the British say) and bestirring yourself to get up from in front of your computer screen and actually walk out the door and help the man put out the *only* remaining journal of microtonality that appears at anything like a regular schedule? You know, criticizing Doty and then sitting back on your fat lazy butts and doodling around with your computers is utterly *typical* of the lethargic do-nothing clowns who make up the vast majority of the membership of this tuning forum, and I'm sick of it. You never bother to actually read any of the texts I cite, okay. Fine. I expect that. It's typical, no surprise. You can't bestir yourselves to tune up and listen to any of the harmonies or melodies I cite, no problem. I expect it. That's par for the course. It would take some effort. But subscribing to 1/1 would take next to zero effort. Getting up of your grotendous butts and writing an article for 1/1 would take very little effort. If you live anywhere near the Bay Area, driving to Palo Alto and asking what you can do to help Doty put the magazine out would take slight effort, but nowhere near as much as struggling with a MIDI synth and a computer and a recalcitrant piece of software to try and get a synth tuned to the 37th root of 31, say, or the free-free metal bar scale. -- If you people want 1/1 to be published on a regular basis, how about putting your money and your brains and your effort where your mouths are? How about it, people? Don't you realize that without support, organizations like the Just Intonation Network fade away? Haven't you figured that out yet? Aren't you getting it? If an organization isn't growing, it's dying. How about cutting down on your time- wasting WWW usage and stop ogling that website where the coffee pot boils in real time? How about using the three or four bucks a month you'd save that way to subscribe to 1/1? Or, God forbid, how about making an even larger donation that $25 a year to the JIN? How about that? Maybe you could even cut back your time-wasting monthly hours of web-surfing by, oh, even as much as 10 or 15 hours a month and spending the money you save on the JIN? How about it, people? You know, the spectacle of a group of rich white lazy nerds sneering and jeering at and criticizing a heroic microtonal pioneer like David Doty is bad enough... But to make matters worse, watching you people sitting around surfing the web compulsively so you can download the complete inventory of tunings you'll never use from some remote website instead of spending your time and effort helping to support one of the few remaining microtonal organizations dedicated to pushing forward the frontiers of new music... Well, the spectacle makes me want to puke. Folks, sometimes you remind me of Da Vinci's description of the do-nothing Florentines who couldn't be bothered to build or finance his inventions but who could *ALWAYS* spend the time and effort to criticize him: Da Vinci called such people "passages for food." --mclaren Received: from ns.ezh.nl [137.174.112.59] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Mon, 2 Dec 1996 23:21 +0100 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA27462; Mon, 2 Dec 1996 23:23:23 +0100 Received: from eartha.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA27493 Received: from by eartha.mills.edu via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id OAA15044; Mon, 2 Dec 1996 14:23:20 -0800 Date: Mon, 2 Dec 1996 14:23:20 -0800 Message-Id: <199612022221.OAA14994@eartha.mills.edu> Errors-To: madole@ella.mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu