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Author: Questionare2
Date: 2000-05-26 14:20
Just a thought - does anyone bother checking the previous messages and replying to them now and again, or do they just waste away with time? (P.S. I'm someone who has used this site quite alot recently)
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Author: Terry Horlick
Date: 2000-05-26 14:51
In looking for a good repair guy for my clarinets I just recently read over all the posts pertaining to this I could find. I went back to January 1999 which is as far back as they went.
It is cumbersome, but you can go back and find stuff. I suggest that Mark might like to post a refrence archive of the forums (oops, "phorums") that have been deleted. I help with another website and I took several years of archived forums and put them onto a cd. The website has sold all 100 copies I made.
You can go to my post "Proud Pappa" to see what I did with the repair information.
<a href=http://www.sneezy.org/clarinet/BBoard/read.html?id=22533>Proud Pappa</a>
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Author: Mark Charette
Date: 2000-05-26 15:30
Terry,
The archived BBoard messages only go back to 1999 - the BBoard was started earlier in a different form where the messages were well-nigh impossible to index. What's the "cumbersome" part about?
The Klarinet Archives (about 80,000 email messages and growing) is more in depth than the BBoard on average. The BBoard tends to be a bit less formal.
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Author: Mark Charette
Date: 2000-05-26 15:33
If you go numerically through the postings you'll not miss any messagesLook at the URL on the top and keep incrementing the id number and getting the page, until you get a "posting not found" message.
BTW - postings are not deleted unless they use offensive language, and there's a search option on the entry page to find postings fast.
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Author: Terry Horlick
Date: 2000-05-26 15:55
Mark,
Thank you for your work on this board, I know how much work it takes! I had to guess at low message numbers and insert them in the URL to jump to early posts. To get to the really early messages you need to go through repeatedly pressing "List Older Messages". This gives you one page at a time and if you goof and press "go to top" you have to do it all again.
OTOH the search engine is excellent for finding older stuff. I just like to look through the index myself and that is hard to do.
Terry
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Author: Mark Charette
Date: 2000-05-26 17:17
Terry Horlick wrote:
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To get to the really early messages you need to go through repeatedly pressing "List Older Messages". This gives you one page at a time and if you goof and press "go to top" you have to do it all again.
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There's a newer version of Phorum out - I'll check into it and see if it is functionally "better enough" to warrant upgrading. It may have better jump facilities.
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Author: Lelia
Date: 2000-05-26 19:08
Questionare2 wrote:
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Just a thought - does anyone bother checking the previous messages and replying to them now and again, or do they just waste away with time? (P.S. I'm someone who has used this site quite alot recently)
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I check back on the messages which particularly interest me, but usually only take time to go back through old messages for about a week or two. I do use the archived messages, though, and really appreciate having those available. It seems I invariably need the information a couple of months after a thread dies!
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Author: ron b.
Date: 2000-05-26 21:41
I, too, Questionare2, sometimes look for archived messages for information. Usually it's about something I remember having been posted but don't remember the details at the moment. Thanks to Mark, it's a great resource to have at our convenience.
ron b.
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Author: paul
Date: 2000-05-26 21:49
I especially like the threads that yield what I believe is some extremely high quality "stuff", like the listing of pro grade drill books, proper interpretation of music, fingering strategies, interesting fingerings, listings of high quality stores, references of superbly professional suppliers, etc.
I have a few of the better postings on diskette somewhere amongst the pile of drill books and older reeds. I also have printouts of the postings. My clarinet practice room that also doubles as my study (busting at the seams with tech manuals and file cabinets wall to wall), my climate controlled storage area, and as the third bedroom of my home is gradually becoming either an information storage facility or a flash fire hazard, whichever comes first. The only thing in that room that has a protected place is my soprano clarinet. Everything else has to fend for itself. That room is small, and it's getting smaller by the day. Gee, I wonder why.
From what I can tell, this description of the room for clarinet practice is perfectly normal compared to many of the other frequent posters on this BBS. Or is this just a sign of a cluttered and busy life?
Confessions? Comments? Email flames? Let me know what your clarinet study room looks like.
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