<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=US-ASCII"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.2802" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY id=role_body style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #000000; FONT-FAMILY: = Arial" bottomMargin=7 leftMargin=7 topMargin=7 rightMargin=7> <DIV> <DIV>  Thanks Andy</DIV> <DIV>  You all are doing a great job.  Do they pay = you enough?no.... we could take up a collection.   probably deserve it!</DIV> <DIV>  Dale</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid"><= FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" face=Arial color=#000000 size= =2>PTG mailing list subscribers, Sorry if you get multiple copies of this message.  I'm posting it to subscribers of pianotech, caut, and ptg-l.  Any questions about this post should be addressed to the P= TG Electronic Communications Committee, ecc@ptg.org. This weekend, = I will be taking the PTG server down for some extended maintenance. = During the downtime, mail posted to ptg.org addresses will be delayed a= nd the www.ptg.org website will be unavailable.  I hope to keep the downtime minimized, but if the need arises, I will be spreading the downtime out so that the server stays available during high usage times= (and so that I can sleep and have a life while the maintenance work is going on). What can you do to help?     PLEASE DON= 'T SEND TEST MESSAGES TO     THE LISTS TO SEE IF THEY ARE UP! Sorry for yelling, but it just creates noise on the lists.&nbsp= ; There's no need to send posts testing the lists because I'm announcing now that there will be some downtime.  If you think the lists are not working correctly outside of the times listed below, please contact admin@ptg.org and we'll look into it.  No need to post tes= t messages that go to many hundreds of people and fill up the archives. Although we've had a few server crashes over the years (that's one of the issues I'm addressing with the maintenance), I'm ver= y proud to say the availability of the PTG server has been quite good.&nb= sp; Hundreds of messages flow through it daily, along with hundreds of thousands of web accesses.  The members of the ECC and the PTG sta= ff all work hard to keep this valuable resource available and this mainten= ance will contribute to higher server availability in the future.  We appreciate your understanding and apologize for any inconvenience. -andy (PTG server administrator and ECC member) Scheduled downtimes -- the PTG server MAY be down durin= g these times:     Saturday 2-18, 9pm Eastern through 7am t= he following morning     Sunday   2-19, 11pm Eastern through 7am the following morning     Monday   2-20= , 9pm Eastern through 7am the following morning     Friday   2-24, 9pm Eastern through 7am the following morning     Saturday 2-25, 11pm Eastern through 7am the follo= wing morning     Sunday   2-26, 9pm Eastern through 7am = the following morning NOTE: My hope is the total downtime adds up to on= ly a small number of        hours -- but if unforeseen problems arise, we'll need to use more        of th= e time allotted above to deal with the issues.</BLOCKQUOTE></DIV> <DIV></DIV> <DIV> </DIV></BODY></HTML>