[Strawbale] re free music

[Michael K. lough]

>    I thought that (and the rest of your post) went without saying. I don't 
>know if that makes me a proper little cynical consumer, or means that I was 
>over- (or under-) estimating certain segments of the audience. Probably 
>some combination of all that and more.

To explain my posting Mark

Once upon a time I wrote to demographic criteria for a living and often was 
told that a particular "audience" (as you interestingly describe the list 
members) could not be underestimated in its ability to misunderstand a 
message and that the first principle of legal disclaimers is that the small 
print regardless of how small it actually is must be included in any "ad" 
(or in this case friendly note to the list). I felt that this list which may 
include "all sorts of folks" would appreciate my insight even if  some 
others did not appreciate it or found it pedantic.If memory serves me well I 
do recall  that time based offers requiring a future action like 
cancellation or indeed the classic money back guarantee on return of an item 
relied significantly on human frailty to forget to cancel or the ability to 
stick the delivery box  back together again.








>
>          I do tend to think that almost everybody is a lot more 
>intelligent than almost everybody else gives them credit for.

This is your charity to almost "everybody ? Or perhaps your condemnation of 
almost "everybody else" ? Or something else?


And I
>don't consider giving folks that sort of respect to be a problem... though 
>others sometimes do.

In all walks of life we judge. Its a natural thing to use ones intuitiuon 
based on received information (right or wrong) to form a basis upon which to 
communicate. I would not for however EXPECT anyone to be aware of what I 
know as a form of respect for them as a human being, I would far rather be 
the butt of their contempt but be consoled in knowing that I have saved one 
person from paying for something because their short term memory loss  made 
them forget to cancel the deal…I dont think its got anything to do with 
"intelligence" …or is that intelligences…?




I'm just a
>convulsing wad of contradictions.)

might rhyme with "partly truth and partly fiction"?



M. Lough

-Innocence dwells with Wisdom, but never with Ignorance.
-William Blake