Jack Campin wrote:
>
> >...I happened upon the Scots-L music list archive.
> > 1. As far as I know, the Scots-L mailing list was in many ways one of
> > the precursors to abcusers and went inactive when this maillist
> > appeared. Is that correct?
>
> No: Scots-L was for discussion of Scottish music generally; the two
> operated in parallel with distinct objectives.
OK. I just made too quick an assumption.
>
> > 2. Is the Scots-L back archive *supposed* to be openly available on
> > the web?
> > I mean, that's not how we do it at abcusers, and the two lists
> > have many of the same members (and I think the same moderator).
>
> Not in my book it wasn't. I objected violently to having any of my
> messages reproduced with my email address in the clear; I didn't realize
> this had been done, and as far as I'm concerned the only reason they're
> there is because I'm too poor to get a court order to stop it. This is
> just plain piracy and totally irresponsible.
Yes, I really wondered about that.
I found the archive by searhcing for "abc tunes" at Google. Got a link
directly to one of the postings there.
There's an unprotected web link to the archive at
http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~ibb/scd/Music/
which seems to be a left-over page from the old "Grand Chain" site.
This is, of course, why I thought the maillist was discontinued. The
archive I found hadn't been updated since 1998.
The new site does not include any link to the list archive.
>
> > 3. Is there anything in the archive not already available all over
> > the web?
>
> Probably. When I was on it I certainly posted things that I haven't put
> anywhere else. You're welcome to archive any of them, so long as I get
> credited, and my email address & any personal email addresses I mentioned
> are either removed or obscured beyond the recognition capacity of any
> imaginable automatic address harvester.
OK. I never ever post anybody else's email adress in any case, and I
always try to give credit.
But since the Scots-L maillist apparently is still alive and kicking,
maybe someone who actually subscribes should make a tune archive rather
than me.
>
> I have been getting increasing amounts of spam to the "jc" address of
> late, and I presume this is why. I have never wanted that address made
> public.
Don't be too mad at the webmaster, Jack! Everybody makes that kind of
mistakes, and I'm sure that a polite request is all it takes to get
those files removed from the web.
Frank Nordberg
http://www.musicaviva.com
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