[Dixielandjazz] An Open Letter RE: DJML Facebook

[Marek Boym]

Hi,
Don't you guys think it's time to end this discussion?  It leads us nowhere.
As you already know, I am staying off FB, even if my letters to DJML are
open to all.  So I have not come to defend the FB list.
Is there harm in it?  I honestly don't know, but by now it seems rather
irrelevant - it's here to stay!  I know at least one person who has joined
the FB group, without joining the email one.  So?
As you should know from my messages, in my country  the OKOM audience is
mixed, even if the younger people would not join a forum like the DJML.
Will the FB promote OKOM to young people?  I rather doubt it, but the
regular list hasn't either.
So, rather than fight, why don't we coexist peacefully?  And have more time
for music instead of polemizing about the relative virtues and drawbacks of
FB vs. regular DJML?
I rest my case, and this is the last you'll hear (read?) from me on this
matter.
Cheers,
Marek



On 15 April 2014 21:55, <SargentDrums at aol.com> wrote:

> Bob Ringwald wrote:
>
> <<But I think by the time I asked him not to use the name, he had  already
> established the DJML FB page. That would have been the time to change  and
> start the new page. But by that time he probably felt that it was too late.
> The horses had already left the barn…>>
>
> This is correct. I did not want to give a few hundred people the boot
> simply for the sake of a name.
>
> Besides, WE are ALL DJML. DJML is a volunteer group of PEOPLE who love  and
> advocate OKOM.
>
> Nobody owns it, there are no dues, there is no governing body, and there
> are no elections.
>
> DJML now has two ways to communicate, and that is PLUS, not a  negative.
> All this does is expand the purpose, the cause of the group, and the  art
> form.
>
> In a family household, there are kids who use very smart phones, and some
> olds folks may still be using their flip phones or land lines to
> communicate. It  is still the same family.
>
> When part of your jazz audience arrives at your concerts by cars, and
> others came by plane or bus, you do not care as to the method of arrival,
> nor
> the mode of communication. They are all your jazz audience.
>
> For years, upon years, you guys have been complaining about dwindling
> audiences and disappearing festival and the seemingly inevitable prospect
> that
> jazz "OKOM" is dying.
>
> So someone like me comes along, and finds a way to expand the reach, grow
> the audience, spread the word, give more people access . . . all while
> giving  younger people an opportunity to develop interest . . . and all I
> get
> from some  of you is complaints. Those younger people are never going to
> come
> here. While  there may be an exception or two, this is not the way they
> comminicate.
>
> So, here is the pertinent question: it is really the music and the art form
>  you care about, or is it simply yourselves?
>
> One last thing here: For those of you who think you have privacy here -
> every single email you've sent is 100% searchable and readable by anyone
> anywhere in the world on the internet. NOTHING you have posted here is
> private.
> Zip, nadda, zero, goose egg.
>
> Now, I suggest it would be a better use of your time to focus on your
> musical discussions than on whether or not what I did was or was not the
> proper
> thing to do. For everyone of you who dis what I've done, I have had
> numerous  people express grateful "thank you"s (and that wasn't the reason
> why I
> did  it.)
>
> Very, totally sincerely,
> Bill Sargent
> A member of the DJML  Email Version since waaaay back when Peter moderated
> the  list.
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