Pianotech Archives

[Farrell]

Thank you very much for your work. These archives will be a much more valuable resource for it!

Terry Farrell
  
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Andy Rudoff" <andy@rudoff.com>
To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Monday, October 14, 2002 3:36 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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