> >
> On Tue, 5 Jun 2001, Johnny Adams wrote:
> > I don't know what you mean by this - VMP hasn't grabbed anybody's
> > copy - we work from originals only and I have copies of the
> > originals here by my computer. Are we talking about John Winder
> > (1789) or Edward and John Winder (1835-41)?
> From: Richard Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> No indeed, you haven't grabbed anything, and I'm sorry if what I said
> looked like I meant that. We were talking about a Geocities site that used
> to have a file "winder.abc" which has now gone missing; Frank was
> concerned that it might have been unique, that tunes might have
> disappeared from the 'net : but it looks as though it was a copy (old) of
> my file from the www.leeds.ac.uk site.
>
Aha! Sorry, I wasn't really being touchy - just tired and emotional
after our session %)
> [ re your other post - my copy of the VMP John Winder (1789) file has 53
> tunes, have you added loads more ? ;) ]
>
No. Winder (1789) has 53, HSJJ Jackson or Wyresdale has 194, and
Edward & John Winder somewhere around 200 (we've forgotton to abc
that one but it will come on site eventually).
>
> This update issue is beginning to annoy me. People occasionally ask if
> they can put up copies of my stuff, and from time to time I become aware
> that a lot more people are doing it without asking, and I've always taken
> the attitude that once I've put something up in public I can't control
> what happens, so why not just be cheerful about it ? But I wonder what
> it's all about, really. People seem to think they're doing "the Web" a
> service by making more copies available. Mirrors are good, yes, but a
> 5-year-old file with no clue as to where it came from, it seems to me, is
> likely to head people off from any updated version. Which isn't too
> helpful.
You can't stop people ripping it off, cocking it up, watering it down
etc. All you can do is try and be the most reliable and be the place
where people automatically go first. In a way it's all part of the
process, like hearing a tune that you wrote being played differently
in a distant session - and maybe even being told that you're playing
it wrong ;-)
>
> I suppose what's bugging me is that, prompted by discussion here, the most
> recent update of my "Tunebook" (last autumn) included hrefs to the source
> site in every tune, so I'm noticing how many copies there are of previous
> versions, which don't include that. The cost of not getting it right first
> time :-/
>
Yes. VMP has stopped publishing briefly while we try and sort out
our policy on several issues of coding, copyright, etc. As you say,
it's important to get it right in the early stages and also to set
things up so that updates are not laborious. Basic mistakes on my
part have compromised the Salford site for a while and now exams,
conferences and other aspects of academia are delaying the
development of the new site.
John Adams - Village Music Project
http://www.performance.salford.ac.uk/research/vmp/index.htm
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