My tax dollars at work! Ha!

Subject: My tax dollars at work! Ha!
From: Grandma Marshall
Date: 19 May 00 - 03:56 PM

I sent this e-mail to this web site: Subj: Re: Hi from Lakewood, Ohio Date: 5/19/00 9:19:00 AM Pacific Daylight Time From: [e-mail] (Borror Lab of Bioacoustics) To: [e-mail]

THIS WAS MY QUERY TO BORRORLAB

At 09:38 AM 5/18/00 EDT, you wrote: >I was wondering if you play on offering MORE real audios specifically of OHIO >amphibians? I'm a musician and I sequence midi songs and I'm just getting >into audio but I need more NATURE sounds of my State. I'll look towards your >suggestion (also, how do I convert .ram files into .wav files--is there some >kind of conversion prg. that you know about?) Thanks Diane Marshall > > No, we do not plan on putting more sounds on our site - precisely because you have done exactly what we do not want users to do - take sounds off our site. We use a program SoundForg for file conversion. SLLG ********************************************************* Sandra L. L. Gaunt phone: [phone] Curator, Borror Lab of Bioacoustics BLB phone: 2-2176 Department of Evolution, Ecology, e-mail: [e-mail] & Organismal Biology FAX: [phone] Neil Avenue, Ohio State Univ. Columbus OH 43210-1293

()< o/'o/'o/' WWW for BLB Homepage, Catalog, Database, etc.: )|) http://blb.biosci.ohio-state.edu >\\_ SITE ADDRESS: Museum of Biological Diversity 1315 Kinnear Rd, Columbus 43212-1192 *********************************************************

See web site address right above here.

Here is my reply: Subj: Re: Hi from Lakewood, Ohio Date: 5/19/00 12:07:20 PM Pacific Daylight Time From: MidiGal To: [e-mail]

So if you don't want to share those sounds with others, then delete them! Did my taxes as a citizen of Ohio PAY for those sounds? I believe OHIO STATE is supported by ME! I own those sounds! There.

I may sound sarcastic, but I have the belief that this State School in MY TAX SUPPORTED entity, and that anything connected to it should SHARE their fine work with whomever needs it and with thanks for a fine program that they have accomplished! Not to be told by some Curator that they DON'T want their SOUNDS to be taken. I want everyone's opinion on this and then I want you to write to them and say so! Thanks for your support! Diane

Subject: RE: My tax dollars at work! Ha!
From: Pene Azul
Date: 19 May 00 - 05:07 PM

Watch out Diane. The NMPA might represent the frogs :^)
PA

Subject: RE: My tax dollars at work! Ha!
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 19 May 00 - 06:13 PM

Have the birds and the frogs and such checked that they aren't infringing someone's copywright?

Maybe this is what lies behind that horse that Bill Brronzy or whoever it was never heard sing...