Searching the tuning archives

Hey all,

I've been really, really, frustrated with using the vast resources of the
tuning group, since it's not easily searchable through Yahoo!. When you
search, you have to only search a small slice of it's history.

For example, I wanted to research Gene's 'Baked Alaska' variant on Carl
Lumma's 'Alaska', without using extra list bandwidth to bother Gene or anyone
else to try to remember and/or manually figure out where/when the hell it was
posted about.

BTW, I'd be into switching to usenet through Google for that reason alone !!!

So tommorrow, I'm planning on whipping up a Python script, using the wonderful
urllib2.py html library that comes with that most amazing of languages, that
will automate the search process of the Yahoo! portal by taking two command
line arguments: the first being the desired mailing list, the second being
the search term(s) one would normally type into the 'search archive' web
portal.

The idea is that it will intelligently iterate through the archive, going
backwards from the present, and doing multiple slices consectutively and
automatically, sending to the console a status message as it goes of what it
has or has not found. For a hard copy, one could simply redirect stdout to a
text file, for example:

pymailsearch 'tuning' 'lumma alaska' > alaska_hits.txt

A hit would be indicated by the post number (ex. 54008) from the archive. One
could then manually type in the post numbers from a browser, or maybe a
second script could be written which could then retrieve all of the relevant
hits for 'lumma alaska' intelligently using the 'alaska_hits.txt' file,
concatenating them to a summary of message body file (which I guess could get
large, perhaps a command line switch could manually limit them), for example:

mailsummary alaska_hits.txt > alaska_reference.txt

I plan that the 'alaska_hits.txt' file would have a header, making the need to
respecify the mailing list unneccessary.....

This, I think, would be a great resource tool for all tuning research done
using the vast repository of the tuning list(s) wisdom, no?

What do you all think?

Cheers,
Aaron.
--
Aaron Krister Johnson
http://www.dividebypi.com
http://www.akjmusic.com

--- In metatuning@yahoogroups.com, "Aaron K. Johnson" <akjmicro@c...>
wrote:

> This, I think, would be a great resource tool for all tuning
research done
> using the vast repository of the tuning list(s) wisdom, no?

I think it's terrific! Of course, download the entire tuning list and
putting it up on the web would be even more terrific; but much easier
and less controversial would be simply creating a file of message
numbers and subject headers.

Aaron K. Johnson wrote:

> BTW, I'd be into switching to usenet through Google for that reason alone !!!

Have you seen this?

http://groups-beta.google.com/

We could be on Google without being on Usenet.

Graham

> Have you seen this?
>
> http://groups-beta.google.com/
>
> We could be on Google without being on Usenet.

I created a tuning group there and no one
said boo.

-Carl

On Monday 12 July 2004 02:56 am, Carl Lumma wrote:
> > Have you seen this?
> >
> > http://groups-beta.google.com/
> >
> > We could be on Google without being on Usenet.
>
> I created a tuning group there and no one
> said boo.

Great !!!! let's start using it !!!

Aaron Krister Johnson
http://www.dividebypi.com
http://www.akjmusic.com

Hey,

It seems my little python script works, but it's as slow as a page refresh on
a web browser unfortunately. Still a helluva lot faster than doing a manual
search though !!!!

For example I did a search for 'Alaska' on the tuning list. Here's the output:

52189 Re: Alaska7
52179 Alaska7
51877 Re: dutchman
51873 dutchman
51730 Meantop and Alaska 4
51514 Re: TOP meantone
51476 Re: TOP meantone
51475 New file uploaded to tuning
51473 Re: TOP meantone
51470 Re: TOP meantone
51450 Re: TOP meantone
51431 Re: TOP meantone
51426 Re: TOP meantone
51425 Re: TOP meantone
51419 Re: TOP meantone
51414 Re: TOP meantone
50588 Re: brat comparisons... 2!
50587 Re: brat comparisons... 2!
50578 Re: brat comparisons... 2!
50413 brat comparisons
49583 Re: key color/pitch determined??
49181 Re: Octatonic Scale
49102 Re: Octatonic Scale
49099 Re: Octatonic Scale
49097 Re: Octatonic Scale
49082 Re: Octatonic Scale
49080 Re: Octatonic Scale
49079 Re: Octatonic Scale
49076 Re: Octatonic Scale
49072 Re: Octatonic Scale
49071 Re: Octatonic Scale
49070 Re: Octatonic Scale
49065 Re: Octatonic Scale
49064 Re: Octatonic Scale
49063 Re: Octatonic Scale
49061 Re: Octatonic Scale
49059 Re: Octatonic Scale
49058 Re: Octatonic Scale
49052 Re: Octatonic Scale
49051 Re: Octatonic Scale
46075 alaskafived piano
45665 Re: piano tunings
45658 Re: piano tunings
45576 Re: piano tunings
45199 from makemicromusic
44242 Re: Alaska temperaments
44239 Re: Alaska temperaments
44237 Re: Alaska temperaments
44234 Re: Alaska temperaments
44233 Re: Alaska temperaments
44231 Re: Alaska temperaments
44230 Re: Alaska temperaments
44229 Alaska temperaments

Cool, huh?

Best,
Aaron Krister Johnson
http://www.dividebypi.com
http://www.akjmusic.com