If that person needs a new home for their abc files, have them
contact me. I'll give them server space for free. Just my little way of
trying to help support the abc format.
Toby
On Thu, 31 May 2001, John Chambers wrote:
> The most recent run of my tune finder's search bot saw a loss of over
> 7000 tunes, which got my attention. It turns out that it was mostly
> due to a drop of 9000 tunes at www.geocities.com. Much of the loss
> seems to have been in the directory www.geocities.com/SoHo/9618/,
> which now contains no file whose name starts with a letter after 'h'.
> Geocities is becoming somewhat known for snafus, but this does seem a
> bit strange. I looked around a bit, but couldn't discover any email
> address associated with this tune collection. Does anyone know who it
> belongs to?
>
> On a somewhat smaller scale, there used to be a few dozen tunes at
> www.celticmusic.co.nz, and they've all disappeared. Does anyone
> recognize this site, or know who it belonged to? Did they maybe move
> somewhere?
>
> These were the only sites that lost tunes this time. The overall
> totals were:
>
> TUNES diff | TITLES diff | FILES diff | HOST
> 82378 -7049 | 92635 -8122 | 30849 1206 | TOTAL
>
> The file cou increasing while the tune count decreases is explained
> by the fact that most of the disappearances are large files with lots
> of tunes, while most of the new files contain only a single tune.
> There were the usual couple dozen sites whose counts increased,
> including more than 700 at www.capecod.net/~bblack/, plus 300 at
> www.numachi.com/~rickheit/dtrad/abc/ which puts his count at over
> 1000 tunes.
>
> The geocities collection does seem to be mostly a mirror of other
> people's files, so there were probably few actual tunes lost. But
> mirrors are valuable when the network gets flakey, which is all too
> common, so it's useful to keep sites like this in working order.
>
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