Re: [crazy_music] Sounds crazy

That sounds Crazy Robert!

Go for it,

GZ

Robert Walker wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> This is just an idea for discussion:
>
> My Archive Magic program can be used to repost all the messages from
> the PMG group if wished.
>
> I don't actually have those messages; didn't get it to download them.
>
> However, my program can extract the individual messages from
> the digests, if we can find them all. (I have all except the early ones).
>
> I could also get it to generate a list of the e-mail addresses of all those
> who posted, since the complete e-mail addresses are shown in the digests,
> and then we could mail to them all and ask if they are happy for their posts to
> be re-posted, which would also be a way of letting everyone know about the
> new group (as some of the members don't belong to the tuning list).
>
> I haven't quite figured out how to program to send an e-mail with the
> original author of the post as the apparent originator of the
> e-mail, so the re-posted messages would all have to show up
> under my name as author, but would be shown as forwarded messages
>
> Like this:
>
> In messages listings:
>
> Author: Robert Walker
> Subject: FW: Re: Wooden frets?! - David J. Finnamore
>
> Body of message:
>
> ............................
>
> Forward: message from David J. Finnamore originally posted Sun, 20 May 2001 14:28:57
>
> --- In practicalmicrotonality@y..., "Orphon Soul, Inc." <tuning@o...>
> wrote:
> > Different temperaments wind up having different envelopes.
> > 41 resonates noticeably longer than most others thereabouts.
>
> That might be explained partly by the following graph, if you have a
> graphical browser:
>
> http://personal.bna.bellsouth.net/bna/d/f/dfin/DefectsETs.htm
> ...
> ............................
>
> If anyone wants their messages left out, we could delete those ones
> before forwarding all the rest.
>
> It would take a while to do the uploading as one has to keep to
> less than 50 messages every 20 minutes. If you go over that
> number, then Yahoo's detection system for auto-responding
> goes into effect.
>
> Yahoo's problem here is the "I am on vacation" type message
> that some people set as an automatic response to an incoming
> e-mail. Suppose also they are on individual e-mail subscription.
> Their p.c. gets an e-mail from a Yahoo group, replies with the
> "I am on vacation" response, that gets relayed back to them
> as a post from the group, their p.c. replies to that saying
> "I am on vacation" again, ...
>
> So, would upload at rate of one message every 30 seconds, say,
> then 450 messages would take getting on for four hours.
>
> Maybe more - e.g. if my ISP disconnects (as it can) and I have
> to reconnect.
>
> I could warn you about it in advance, and we could all switch to no
> e-mail mode, (or get Jeff to do it for us) while it happened.
>
> However, that seems an awkward solution.
>
> A better idea, if we want to do this, might be to do it the other way round
> - I'd ask Jeff to make another group, say, new_crazy_music
> then before anyone joins it, I'd forward all the posts from PMG to it.
>
> When that was all done, I'd let you know, and then Jeff can rename crazy_music
> to crazy_music_was, and then rename the new_crazy_music to crazy_music.
>
> Then we all rejoin crazy_music.
>
> Then finally, I can repost all the messages from crazy_music_was to crazy_music,
> and there we are, all the posts from PMG in chronological order, followed by
> the ones from crazy_music.
>
> Anyway, no idea whether this the thing to do, it's something to discuss, but
> it may be of interest to know that it can be done if we do decide on it.
>
> Robert
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