At 09:41 PM 10/15/2000 EDT, you wrote:
>
>http://members.aol.com/LewesArmsFolk/Lewesfav.html. It appears on the abc
>homepage under abc collections as "Favourite English dance tunes from the
>Lewes sessions, Sussex". I'd like this to be accessible to other people's
>software.
That being the case, Brian, then the first thing I'd do is put
those abcs out on the site in plain text format, rather than, or at
least in addition to the zipped files. Every site I've seen listed on
the ABC index on Chris Walshaw's site has the notation out in plain
text, and there are some good reasons for doing it that way.
If you made your tunes available in plain text, they'd be easily
searchable by the same means that everyone else's are. Second, it would
give visitors the option of downloading the specific tunes they want,
rather than an entire file.
Just as an aside, there is another perspective on the "democracy"
question that you've been steadfastly ignoring, which I feel needs to
be pointed out by someone who isn't one of the developers: these folks
who work on these programs generously *donate* their time to it. They
are volunteers, they put in whatever time they can, when they can, and
should be applauded for that, not subjected to ridicule, abuse and per-
sonal attacks. If you are running into resistance, perhaps you should
consider that in many of your posts, your tone has been, er, somewhat
less than respectful.
Wendy
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