[Roger -Dot- Lee(Admin)]

Originally posted by Rick and Roll
I'll try to reply.

I'm not being clear about what I'm saying about the queue, or you're not telling me now what you and Jim have told me before. So let's leave it at that. I'll talk to you sometime about it, but not today, and I won't move up rq's.

Communications breakdown, it appears. We'll talk. But I don't recall ever saying to anyone, at any time, that it was SOP to move requests into the play queue. If Jim said so, let me know and he and I will get our stories straight. However, I kinda doubt it since it could lead to licensing issues in regards to the request functionality. And if you need to pad some time before your show, let me know. I'll show you a handy trick that Spaz showed me.

I don't make these restrictions up simply to amuse myself, Rick. If I did they'd likely entail such restrictions that every other show be done with a faux french accent or something equally silly. I do this so Jim won't have to talk with Lawyers and others of their ilk.

So it's too onerous and difficult to limit the number of requests but ok to have a request free month?? Horsehockey. I should have let vax's reply stand...he had some fine points.

OK, bad word. Difficulty to the user isn't what I was thinking. Distasteful would be more along the lines. The actual onerousness regarding users would be that what would show up in my mailbox should I implement a 12 hour RQ restriction or something like that. Perhaps I was thinking 'odious' or something equally impressive. English confuses me sometimes.

If you can implement an hour delay you can implement 12.

Yes, I can. But do we WANT to? The entire point is to encourage the play of stuff that isn't the 'standard'. If that's all we really wanted to do, we could save Jim a lot of dough on new CD purchases. But we don't want to, do we?

I'm continually confused by your hints at doing things like "programming songs to play" or "implementing changes". If you want to say you can do anything you want because you have the technical know how...well you've said that a lot. So just do it then if that makes you happy.

Methinks you're reading too much into what I'm saying. If I really wanted to do just whatever I felt like doing without input, we wouldn't be discussing it. I'd have already done it.

I do not consider RFW the only non-request times. When SAM fills in tunes around requests, that counts too. And I know that's full of the same bands because there's more of them. Maybe you are not looking at a large enough sample.

I'm looking at the station history going back to Feb. 2004. If you have access to more data, share.

Look, I'm tired of being the bad guy here just because I'm opinionated.

You're not a bad guy just because you're opinionated, Rick.

(anymore than I'm a bad guy because I have poor impulse control when it comes to taking cheap shots at friends.)

We agree on most of it. Look at others' ideas (posting your requests for all to see and no rq at all) and that should be more what you should debate.

I'll debate what I see fit to debate, and ignore what I don't. Nothing new there.

As for Kirk's idea, I'm mulling it over and will reply to it when I can either pull together sufficient technical foo to pull it off or sufficient reason why it wouldn't be practical. That's one of those ideas that a snap decision can't really be made on for a number of reasons.

Time to enjoy a Saturday night....and we'll chat maybe by pm (I think I'm boring everyone and and I'm tired of discussing it here).

Looking forward to it. It's apparent to me that we've got a communications issue that needs to be straightened out.

I just want to do my show and that's it. I don't want to make any of these decisions.

Sometimes, I feel just that way myself.

Anyone else weighing in?

Roger -Dot- Lee, 165 lbs, bantamweight with a bad back and a penchant for puns.