Klarinet Archive - Posting 000498.txt from 1997/03

From: Mark Charette <charette@-----.COM>
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Date: Fri, 14 Mar 1997 22:50:04 -0500

I wrote:
> I just added a Bulletin Board to sneezy for whatever you'd like
> to use it for (setting up chats, instruments for sale, recitals,
> etc.).
Neil Leupold wrote:
>This concerns me. I never surf the web. I only use email
>and have never even visited Sneezy. It seems that putting
>a bulletin board on a separate server will diffuse some
>material away from Klarinet. Has it been so bad to have
>postings about chats, instruments for sale, recitals, etc.
>posted right here on Klarinet? None of these things
>are off-topic, and more of our Klarinet people will
>certainly see such postings on Klarinet than on Sneezy.
>Klarinet is, essentially, a bulletin board in itself.
>I fear that interesting postings and such might end up
>on the Sneezy board and never make it to Klarinet, and
>I'd hate to miss something interesting or useful. What
>prompted the creation of a separate board?

Neil,
There are about 700 members on the Klarinet list; a fair number,
and they are for the most part very dedicated people. However,
there are a large number of clarinetists who do not want to be
part of the list, whether because of the number of postings a day,
the generally high level of scholarship, possibly the
lack of time to track what goes on, and other reasons.

I've had, over the past year, over 300 requests for a bulletin board
on sneezy. I keep referring those people to Klarinet, but most
never join. Also, over the past 6 months, there have been over
600,000 pages of information transmitted from sneezy in 19,000
visits through the "front" door and 80,000 visits via bookmarks
(hits that come directly to the pages). Out of these there have been
over 6,000 different sites hitting sneezy, which means well in
excess of 6,000 DIFFERENT people. More than 2 Gb of information
has flowed out of sneezy in the last 6 months.

I enjoy Klarinet; I have the time to follow, and I don't mind
posting and adding my (sometimes naive) comments to the list. I
will forward interesting things that come from sneezy to the
list as I can.

If you don't "surf" the Web that is your choice; that means that
you can't review the entire Klarinet archives, you can't do
on-line searches through a composition database that soon will
number over 5500 different compositions for clarinets; you can't
search the on-line discography; you can't visit Stan Geidel's excellent
Online Clarinet resource, and you won't have access to printable
clarinet music (which will be coming on-line very soon).

--
Mark Charette, Webmaster, http://sneezy.mika.com/clarinet
charette@-----.com