Someone can still get there point across without being rude, but perhaps you are correct, that is just his type of personality. Poor excuse in any case.

I am glad you think so highly of yourself. I did read that thread where Kara told you to leave her alone when you got into the gold plating issue again after her first post. Kara is a friend of mine and I hate to see anyone else fall victim to your type of behavior. Your personality is tolerated by many people because of the fact that you have knowledge and can help. Enough said, I simply do not wish to go around in circles with this pointless issue.

Regards,
Steve

Quote Micron - And in my culture, mutual ego-stroking, which is prominent in this forum (but not others), plays almost no part unless it is in jest.- unquote.

So you won't mind me saying micron - in jest of course - that you blow your own trumpet fantastically well !!!!

I believe Micron has made clear an important point:

We all confront here people of very different cultures, ages and knowledge. This variety is almost impossible to find in real life or outside Internet. SO it is normal we have difficulties in getting on well -sometimes. And only sometimes.

We must accept these differences, me must learn to coexist with other people being different.

I think we all know more or less where Micron lives (and it is far away, indeed) and he stated very clearly that there, the way he expresses his opinions is normal.

So please, accept it as a fact; in the worst case just complain personally if someone feels attacked and I'm sure the supposed offender will understand -and learn. Even little by little or slowly. We all learn, or should do.

But do not take these possible offences on others as being on yourselves, even if the offended is a friend.

And, if possible, please do not bring here discussion originated in other Forums, they do not belong to this Forum and doing that certainly does not help!

Hope I am not being harsh on anybody, but right now I am never sure of anything!

I have my little concert this evening. Leave quarrels aside for a minute and wish me good "luck"- I'm in need of it.

Ah, and smile! It always helps.

We must accept these differences, me must learn to coexist with other people being different.

I do accept difference, but rudeness and down right personal attacks, I do not. See it as you see fit, but I and I know personally others do also.

OK evets, I understand your point. Of cpourse I can do nothing about that.

But you did not wish me good luck and I was serious about that!! (just joking).

Anyway I have had my audition today, we were few and all flutist students.

As I feared, I got a little nervous and made a few mistakes, but in spite of them, the two flutes (teacher and me) could agree well and my sound was very satisfactory (teacher dixit).

She was very happy, she likes the way we can play the flute together and that is the best comment I could receive. She says I answer her phrases appropriately, something I am not doing consciously but I feel happening. And I enjoy that like so much!

Will post a photo of the performance soon.

In summary, that I feel very happy and satisfied.

No doubt my new Yamaha has helped me a lot. I am beginning to deal better with the EC cut after a month since I received it.

I can say, without being unnecessarily humble, that I had the best tone quality from all my colleagues (teacher excluded, naturally).

I own that in part to beautiful people in this Forum, that gave wise opinions and supported me when I was hesitating about the if, when and what of buying a new instrument. Thank you all!

Now, the others colleagues made fewer mistakes that me, it seems that is my weakest side for the moment. My sight problems are not helping and I could not memorize the part in time, so I had to read and that was an added difficulty.


Cheer up, people, let dark thoughts behind, life is beautiful!

Quoting my part from the Pantom of the Opera, that I will be singing in another audition next Saturday:

No more talk of darkness,
forget these wide eyes fears...

Grats Jose! It is nice to hear you received compliments on your playing even with a few mistakes. It shows you have grown and will continue to grow.

By the way, Phantom was the first musical I fell in love with many years ago. Since then my collections of musicals has expanded, by my Phantom CD is in my car all the time.

(Micron, i respect you a lot. You've helped us so much with your knowledge^_^ Just wanted to say thanks. ANd i'm really glad you're part of this forum. We really need ppl like you! yup..go micron!heehee)

micron wrote:

Several times here in the past, I have been offering information

that is so true.
when i was new here, i made a topic(something about tarnish)....micron was the first and the only one who made a reply.
his information was very helpful...it made me realize that i was treating my flute the wrong way, i did not take it as an insult...instead i just considered it as a helpful advice.
by the way thanx micron!

---kishi

Thanks Alieannie and everybody that congrat'd me (or just thought of doing it).

Yes, I feel proud because I could face it and go through reasonably well. And very happy. And I had never seen my teacher as happy as that day, in three years!. So it was very positive experience.

Of course I agree with you concerning the use of private mailing. To Micron I wanted to say that receiving an Email does not necessarily divulge your address, as though it is normally hidden in your profile, still Emails can be sent "blindly".

However, answering an Email does show your address to the recipient. This problem can easily be worked around by using a different address and email account for replying, you can get one free in yahoo (and you already have one as you are posting in Yahoo Forums) or just open another account in seconds.

But I am afraid this nice procedure does not work. People who reply in some impolite ways probably want to make it publicly and may be, the reason behind the urge to so reply is not simply a self defense. It is more complicated than that, I guess.

Yes, Micron. spam is a huge problem in some cases. I have a public email address (as I own a commercial web site) and I receive about 100 spam messages each day. They get filtered out by Eudora (my email client) but they still consume my bandwidth, which I pay for. And I have to check the long lists titles in case a good message has been unduly filtered out.

However, using a free address is not the problem as far as spam is concerned. The spammers use huge lists of addresses that they gather by robotics means (and also manually, I guess) from anything that is on the WEB, has a "@" and looks like an email address.

Then they sell these lists to spammers companies. It's a kind of Mafia business and runs worldwide.

In order not to have your address listed by those spammer feeders, you should avoid posting your Email address anywhere and particularly in discussion sites (but this forum hides the addresses so there is not risk here, unless it gets hacked).

Some sites that require your email address to let you in or for other services are designed just for that, to collect addresses and sell them. Other sites may have legitimate purposes, but still sell the addresses they get from their customers.

So, using a free address does not increase those problems over the normal risk background, which is rather high. You have the added advantage than being free, they can be as ephemeral as the time it gets the spammers to get you address. Then just switch to a new one.

I consider this procedure much safer than using your "good" (paid for) addresses.

To use a free address to reply to an email you can do it in two ways:

- Use the webmail feature of the site (but you have to log-in, write the message, send it and it is time consuming)

-define a new "personality" in your mail client (Outlook express or whatever you use). In this case you will be using the SMTP server provided by the free site and it has some limitations, such as requiring automatic authentication (of your identity), which forces you to use the same account user name as the name of the email sender. No problem about that, only that it is sometimes difficult to get it working for the first time.

Of course we can live without following this ever increasing complication of everything, but it becomes harder and more limited...