Request Free Days

[Roger -Dot- Lee(Admin)]

Greetings.

As you all well know, Jim and I were toying with the idea of taking the idea of Request Free Wednesday and taking it to it's logical conclusion: Request free month of April. The reason behind this is because of the positive response and reaction we've received with RFW. Turning requests off on Wednesdays, in this listener's opinion (and yes, I do listen, I don't just work here) is one of the best ideas we've come up with.

That particular idea seemed to garner a lukewarm reception, to say the very least.

So that particular idea has been shelved, but a few alternatives cropped up that definitely got our attention. But, in all fairness, let's take a look at ALL the ideas that have been bandied about:

• Remove requests entirely for the entire month
• Turn the idea of RFW on it's ear and make every other day request-free, except Wednesdays, where requests would rule the day (so to speak).
• Alternate request free days
• Leave it alone, don't break what's working, etc.
• Remove RFW and let the listeners run roughshod over the library (you can tell where I stand personally on this particular idea).
• Send Dr. Dot a round trip ticket to England so I can hang out with the British Contingent for a while and catch some good Prog Tunes in a live setting (OK, I made this one up. I still think it's a good idea! )

So what do YOU think? Do you have any great ideas as to how we can take a good thing and make it better? SHOULD we take a good thing and make it better? Should we take a good thing and eliminate it entirely, thus opening the door to massive overrequesting and the end of the world as we know it, followed by the degeneration of western civilization and rule of the entire planet by cockroaches? (OK, so I exaggerated that last bit).

We want to hear from YOU, the listeners. Post your ideas. Let us know. Jim and I don't do this just for ourselves, you know.

Roger -Dot- Lee, who really wouldn't mind that last option, regardless of the fact that it has little or nothing to do with the subject at hand