[pianotech] Website update

Ron Nossaman rnossaman at cox.net
Wed Jan 11 21:27:37 MST 2012


On 1/11/2012 10:08 PM, Norman Cantrell wrote:
> Duaine
>
> The servers to which I refer are the same servers that have been in use
> by PTG for the last few years. Currently Jim Moy is overseeing their
> operation. You saw a post by him earlier this fall describing the limits
> to archive space and his storing some material on his personal server.
> Keep in mind that the software we have been using was modified and
> enhanced very heavily by Andy R. in the past. He took the off the shelf
> Mailman program and tweaked it significantly. You might think of taking
> a Kimball grand from the early 70's and prepping it out to compete with
> a Steinway on a performance stage. Keeping all this going is part of the
> challenge to which I referred.

So how about the real alternative of making the "legacy" function of the 
HL site work, including fixing the character set and sending and 
receiving (or "viewing") attachments without going online to do it? I 
don't recall reading a coherent reason why that isn't being done. Is 
there one?
Ron N


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