Pianotech Archives

[John Ross]

Hi Andy,
I would like to add my thanks, to that of others, who have thanked
you.
I don't think any of us realize just how much effort must go into
this.
The new search method, really works well.
Best regards,
John M. Ross
Windsor, Nova Scotia.
jrpiano@win.eastlink.ca
----- Original Message -----
From: "Andy Rudoff" <andy@rudoff.com>
To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Monday, October 14, 2002 4:36 PM
Subject: Re: Pianotech Archives


| >Did something happen to the pianotech archives? I have tried doing
| >searches before and I would get results, but I would have to sort
| >through a zillion unrelated posts to find the one I might be
looking
| >for. I tried it again for damper tray stuff and I got lots of
damper
| >tray stuff returned, and no garbage! Something wonderful appears to
have
| >happened!!! Was there indeed some major change?
|
| All new software on an all new server, as of September 9th.  I agree
| that the searching is much faster and more accurate.  When I was
| selecting the newest software for the server, I actually had to give
| up on the latest & greatest version of the search software -- it
| had bugs that prevented it from working on a archives as large as
| the pianotech archives.  So I had to "back off half a turn" to the
| previous stable version of the searching software.  Seems pretty
| good, as you've noticed.  I also think searching single messages
| (i.e. the web pages for each individual post) produces way more
| useful search results than the previous mechanism which searched
| the majordomo digests.  I also gained an improvement in the archive
| content by doing some serious filtering and processing of the
| archives while moving them to the new server.  I had to actually
| write programs to do this, since I could not find any tools that
| would do what I needed :-(
|
| -andy
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