moving the list/ MP3 repository.

Folks,
Looks to me like, since

1) not everyone wants to move,
2) It's not TOTALLY urgent,
3) I have other things to do in my life,

We'll wait on getting off of Yahoo. I'm sure the offer will still
stand in a year or whenever, if we *have* to get out of Yahoo.

HOWEVER, that's just re: the e-mail list.

The permanent MP3 repository idea I had WILL go forward, I don't think
anyone's going to complain about that. There will be an HTML page from
which MP3's (or MIDIs, or JPGs, or whatever) can be downloaded. You will
have to e-mail files to me to put up (we can't do an anonymous ftp or
anything spiffy like that, sadly, according to the sysadmin.) Once
they're up, they won't have to come down, ever (unless some wierd
University thang happens. . . ) And we've got (more or less) unlimited
space!!

(I do have limited time, however, so I'm going to ask folks to limit
submissions to new pieces, that aren't up elsewhere; and that they have
some relevance to tuning . . . .)

If anyone would like to make some boilerplate HTML code for that page, and
send it to me, that would be cool. Otherwise I'll just set up something
suitably wimpy.

I was thinking of organizing the page, rather than alphabetically by
composer or some such, instead, categorized by tuning type. This would
help make the page a nice pedagogical info-source, i.e., ya wanna hear
something in BlackJack, well, go to the BlackJack section.

let me know your thoughts. . . I'll set stuff up over the weekend, I hope.

cb

--- In tuning@y..., Christopher Bailey <cb202@c...> wrote:
>
> Folks,
> Looks to me like, since
>
> 1) not everyone wants to move,
> 2) It's not TOTALLY urgent,
> 3) I have other things to do in my life,
>
> We'll wait on getting off of Yahoo. I'm sure the offer will
still
> stand in a year or whenever, if we *have* to get out of Yahoo.

We've got to get off of this place. Carl is about ready to leave,
and I don't blame him. If you don't want to do it, I wonder if
anyone else would be able to?

>Folks,
> Looks to me like, since
>
>1) not everyone wants to move,

Hopefully you wrote this before reading some of the more
recent comments. Anyway, if you're expecting a unanimous
decision, you're never going to get one over something
like this.

>3) I have other things to do in my life,

It is totally up to you to decide whether to volunteer
your time and expertise, for the meager compensation of
all the honor and glory 200 people (or whatever we really
have) can possible throw at you. ;) The only catch is
that you'll have to put in some of the investment to get
a proof of concept, before you'll get any number of
people to commit. This will probably be true no matter
how desperate people get.

>HOWEVER, that's just re: the e-mail list.
>
>The permanent MP3 repository idea I had WILL go forward,
>I don't think anyone's going to complain about that.

You're right: We won't. :)

-Carl

genewardsmith wrote:

> --- In tuning@y..., Christopher Bailey <cb202@c...> wrote:
> >
> > Folks,
> > Looks to me like, since
> >
> > 1) not everyone wants to move,
> > 2) It's not TOTALLY urgent,
> > 3) I have other things to do in my life,
> >
> > We'll wait on getting off of Yahoo. I'm sure the offer will
> still
> > stand in a year or whenever, if we *have* to get out of Yahoo.
>
> We've got to get off of this place. Carl is about ready to leave,
> and I don't blame him. If you don't want to do it, I wonder if
> anyone else would be able to?
>

For what it's worth, I vote to move. Yahoo is a dinosaur.

Regards