Re: [abcusers] Re: Bryan Creer (?)

2004-12-02 Thread Toby Rider
On Dec 2, 2004, at 2:24 PM, John Walsh wrote: John Chambers writes: Hmmm ... I see conflicting evidence here. If he's an academic, he should be completely at home with no-holds-barred discussions. Things like misattribution of quotes, quoting out of context, and blatant misrepresentation

Re: [abcusers] Re: Bryan Creer (?)

2004-12-01 Thread Toby Rider
On Dec 1, 2004, at 11:45 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Apart from that, I've spent the last year studying for an MSc in Computing in Archaeology which has kept me fairly busy.  For an idea of what I've been up to have a look at - http://www.bryancreer.com/Castle.html You're an academic Bryan?

Re: [abcusers] Is the list back again?

2004-10-25 Thread Toby Rider
I'll communicate with the folks at mail-archive and let them know how to get a feed from the list again, now that I've tightened up security and squashed the spam problem (for now). Toby On Thu, 14 Oct 2004, Remo D. wrote: I'm happy to see that the list is back again. The only problem I see

[Abcusers] mailman test

2004-10-06 Thread Toby Rider
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[abcusers] ANOUNCEMENT

2004-04-14 Thread Toby Rider
messages onto the lists. Toby Rider To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html

[abcusers] The servers are safe...

2003-10-31 Thread Toby Rider
I've received several emails from folks asking if my servers, Argyll, Lochaber and Barra are in danger of being toasted by the enormous fires that are raging out here.. The servers are fine. We live right near the Pacific Ocean, so we're safe from the fires. However if there's a large tidal,

[abcusers] uk.music.notation

2003-07-28 Thread Toby Rider
abcusers-digest wrote: er to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html -- Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2003 17:10:59 +0200 (CEST) From: I. Oppenheim [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [abcusers] ANN: uk.music.notation Some of you may be interested that there is currently a proposal

Re: [abcusers] ABC home page

2003-07-02 Thread Toby Rider
Wow this is the most active I've seen this list in months.. Toby To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html

Re: [abcusers] Awful quiet...

2003-05-12 Thread Toby Rider
You're on the list of users who receive the digest.. You've been on there for awhile. If you weren't, you wouldn't have been able to post this last message. It's possible that aol is bouncing the messages back, but doubtful, because I haven't seen any bounces coming back from your address..

Re: [abcusers] Awful quiet...

2003-05-12 Thread Toby Rider
My mailserver is setup to send mail using the Unix program bulk-mailer.. It really improves the efficiency of the mailing for all the lists, but some ISPs think it's a spamming program.. That sometimes causes problems.. I didn't see it in this case however. DottieB wrote: From: [EMAIL

Re: [abcusers] mobile phones as a commercial opportunity

2003-03-21 Thread Toby Rider
/ To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html -- Toby Rider ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) - Some of those parts were totally rubbish, because when you think you're playing well when you're drunk, you're actually playing like an idiot. - Robert Smith Toby Rider's

Re: [abcusers] mobile phones as a commercial opportunity

2003-03-21 Thread Toby Rider
Whoops, disregard that last message.. I get about 450-500 email messages per day, I've gotten very good at deleting messages based on subject lines that look even slightly spamish, and I am sensitive to protecting all the lists from spammers. Sorry about that Ed. To subscribe/unsubscribe,

Re: [abcusers] help in unsubcribing

2003-03-10 Thread Toby Rider
Go to http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html and follow the directions. I have been unsuccesful at three different attempts to unsubscribe to this list. Could someone please assist me? -- Toby Rider ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) - Some of those parts were totally rubbish, because when you think

Re: [abcusers] abc repository similiar to olga.net?

2003-03-04 Thread Toby Rider
Has anyone thought of compiling a centralized database of abc tunes similar to olga.net.. I find that resource incredibly useful. Basically something like John's tune finder, except that it saves everything to a local database. I would be willing to donate computing power storage space to

[abcusers] abc repository similiar to olga.net?

2003-03-03 Thread Toby Rider
to such a project. Toby -- Toby Rider ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) - Some of those parts were totally rubbish, because when you think you're playing well and you're drunk, you're actually playing like an idiot. - Robert Smith Toby Rider's Understated Homepage: http://www.blackmill.net/toby_rider

Re: [abcusers] abc repository similiar to olga.net?

2003-03-03 Thread Toby Rider
/ Toby Rider wrote: Has anyone thought of compiling a centralized database of abc tunes similar to olga.net.. I find that resource incredibly useful. Basically something like John's tune finder, except that it saves everything to a local database. I would be willing to donate computing power

Re: [abcusers] Digest #845?

2003-02-28 Thread Toby Rider
! To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html -- Toby Rider ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) IMHO this is a wholly unacceptable piece of equipment to play music with. The real question is, whether it is more functional as a piece of furniture, cigarette holder, or dart

Re: unsubscribe (was Re: [abcusers] multi line footer in abcm2ps)

2003-02-22 Thread Toby Rider
Vreckem If Bill Gates had a penny for each time Windows crashed... Wait a minute! He does! To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html -- Toby Rider ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) IMHO this is a wholly unacceptable piece of equipment to play music with. The real

Re: [abcusers] Erroneous posting - sorry

2003-02-05 Thread Toby Rider
://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html -- Toby Rider ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) He either fears his fate too much, Or his deserts are small, That puts it not unto the touch To win or lose it all. - James Graham, Marquis of Montrose To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html

Re: [abcusers] Re: Musicians and techies

2003-02-02 Thread Toby Rider
On Sun, 2003-02-02 at 19:23, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Toby wrote (nice to see you actually on the list, Toby): Not so all over the USA. See http://www.fiddlerstour.com/default_ft.aspx for a description of our weekly pub/restaurant session. I know several of others here in the Northeast.

Re: [abcusers] Fwd: Kid and cat

2003-01-30 Thread Toby Rider
You can add scientists and architects to that list too. It's probably because music is the most abstract of all the arts, like all of those disciplines it requires the ability to think in abstractions. Interesting. I actually have an undergraduate degree in architecture, but decided not to

Re: [abcusers] Musicians and techies

2003-01-30 Thread Toby Rider
Can I repost those comments elsewhere off-list, with proper attribution (of course)? Which comments? Hopefully not the one about my friends having lot's of tattos and piercings.. :-) To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html

Re: [abcusers] Musicians and techies

2003-01-30 Thread Toby Rider
I was referring to John Chamber's insightful discourse on the music industry, musicians, computer/internet developers, and the future of music. Yes, John's post was excellent.. It should be preserved. BTW, are you the same guy who on the debian linux list? I think I've read your emails

Re: [abcusers] Fwd: Kid and cat

2003-01-29 Thread Toby Rider
| Anybody else annoyed at Zouki for filling our mail with these (now 2 in | a row)? | | Zouki, this list is not for cute email stories and jokes. | I think most of us got over that use of email a long time ago. | Please stop, and let's get back on topic. | | Thanks, | Chris So maybe

Re: [abcusers] Fwd: Kid and cat

2003-01-29 Thread Toby Rider
I mean, we're talking about a gang of musicians. Do we really think we can ever get any two of them to agree on anything? It's sorta like that old saying: If you have a watch, you know what time it is; if you have two watches, you're never sure. Yup, creative people suck.. Artists,

Re: [abcusers] Thank you for your message, here's my card..

2002-12-12 Thread Toby Rider
/bagpiper Bob Driscoll INdependent Associate Pre-Paid Legal Services, Inc -- Toby Rider ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) I don't try to be better then anybody else. I only try to be better than myself. - Dan Jansen, Olympic Gold Medalist World Record Holder, Speed Skating To subscribe/unsubscribe, point

Re: [abcusers] Chinese tunes

2002-12-10 Thread Toby Rider
Scan a copy of the instructions and send them to me. I can read a moderate number of characters and my mother is fluent. So we can tell you what it says. Toby John Walsh wrote: Second question: I have a Chinese book of flute tunes, written out much like abc, but in numbers, not

Re: [abcusers] Laurie Griffiths : sad news

2002-11-29 Thread Toby Rider
What a bummer.. I had just corresponded with him via email just a few weeks ago.. How depressing.. Toby To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html

Re: [abcusers] how do I unsubscribe?

2002-11-21 Thread Toby Rider
Seems like it works just fine, because you just unsubscribed yourself: -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] has unsubscribed from abcusers. No action is required on your part. Dear listmembers, Could anybody please tell me how to get off te abcusers list? The unsubscribe precudure via:

Re: [abcusers] Goodbye

2002-11-20 Thread Toby Rider
I have plenty of disk space. If you want I will store it for you in a place this will be available for all list members to download. Toby Christian M. Cepel wrote: You've certainly my gratitude and appreciation. Might we convince you to make a single tarball available, I'd really love

Re: [abcusers] Muse2 for Linux? (was: pre-announcement)

2002-11-19 Thread Toby Rider
If this package will be available for Linux, I will pay for a copy as well. Toby Will Muse2 be runnable under Linux? With sound? I'm one of those rare folk who like to run Linux but who is also willing to *pay* for good software. Paying my own bills that way probably counts as a bias.

Re: [abcusers] Goodbye

2002-11-19 Thread Toby Rider
Once at a crisis point in my life I got an email from an Indian friend who said always remember that some of Gods greatest gifts come in the form of unanswered prayers. That was also a line in a popular country/western song :-) To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to:

Re: [abcusers] abc drum notation and abc2ps

2002-11-15 Thread Toby Rider
You could always use liquid paper, white-out the notes heads and redraw them in as X's with a sharpie permanent marker.. Ha..Ha.. On Thu, 14 Nov 2002, Christopher Myers wrote: 1) Can I use an X for a note head? no, unless you redefine the PostScript code that draws noteheads. If you

Re: [abcusers] abc drum notation and abc2ps

2002-11-15 Thread Toby Rider
Well, you could output them as tiffs, gifs or jpegs and then open then up in photoshop or The Gimp. Toby Rider wrote: You could always use liquid paper, white-out the notes heads and redraw them in as X's with a sharpie permanent marker.. Ha..Ha.. yes, but can I do that on my hard

Re: [abcusers] Stop the list - I want off!

2002-11-14 Thread Toby Rider
Email me (off-list), with all of your email addresses email address aliases, I'll manually search for you. 95% of the time when this happens it's because someone forgot what address they subscribed with, because they have so many darned addresses/aliases they can't remember them all. Or they

[abcusers] List subscriptions

2002-11-13 Thread Toby Rider
I opened up the list subscriptions on this list to the way they were before I set them to approval only. For some reason the abcusers list gets the most sub/unsub requests of any list I admin. Now people will stop bitching that it takes me a week to approve their admin request. If spam becomes

[abcusers] [Fwd: BOUNCE abcusers@argyll.wisemagic.com: Non-membersubmission from [contrapartner@softhome.net]]

2002-11-13 Thread Toby Rider
This person's message bounced because they were trying to send from a non-listed alias. Here's there message. ---BeginMessage--- From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Nov 13 16:02:18 2002 Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: from smtp01.wlv.untd.com

Re: [abcusers] Stop the list - I want off!

2002-11-06 Thread Toby Rider
On Wed, 2002-11-06 at 07:36, Bert Van Vreckem wrote: Hello, It is also possible that Toby has not yet found the time to process your request. Try to mail him personally. In the past, Toby has asked for some volunteers to help him maintaining this list, processing (un)subscribe requests,

Re: [abcusers] Unsub...

2002-09-24 Thread Toby Rider
You're probably trying to unsubscribe an address or alias that isn't the same one that you used to originally subscribe to the list. That happens *all* the time. Send me a list of all of your email addresses/aliases and I can search manually for them in the list. Toby Mike Whitaker

Re: [abcusers] mail-archive.com, the spammer's friend

2002-08-15 Thread Toby Rider
John Chambers wrote: (Perhaps we could also solve the problem by sending form letters to spammers pointing out that we are musicians, so most of us probably don't have enough money to be worth their attention. ;-) Sigh.. I'm so used to spam. You can imagine how much spam I

Re: [abcusers] mail-archive.com, the spammer's friend

2002-08-15 Thread Toby Rider
John Chambers wrote: Toby writes: | John Chambers wrote: | | (Perhaps we could also solve the problem by sending form | letters to spammers pointing out that we are musicians, so | most of us probably don't have enough money to be worth | their attention. ;-) | | Sigh..

Re: [abcusers] mail-archive.com, the spammer's friend

2002-08-14 Thread Toby Rider
They're probably subscribed to the abcusers list. Since you are a list subscriber, you can send majordomo a who command, and go through the entire list of abcuser subscribers, find any email addresses that look suspect. Then you can send them an email demanding to know if they are the

Re: [abcusers] unsubscribe

2002-07-03 Thread Toby Rider
and a bunch of others that were in the queue. Sorry, I've been pretty behind on all this stuff since recovering from my accident. Toby Rider To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html

[abcusers] [Fwd: BOUNCE abcusers@argyll.wisemagic.com: Non-member submissionfrom [Steve Mansfield Steve@lesession.demon.co.uk]]

2002-05-24 Thread Toby Rider
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2002-05-23 Thread Toby Rider
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[abcusers] mailing list archives

2002-04-02 Thread Toby Rider
it is worth checking out: http://www.mail-archive.com/ Toby Rider To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html

[abcusers] speed of mailings archives

2002-01-31 Thread Toby Rider
the postings with Thunderstone search. I know some folks on here are sensitive about having their email addresses visible on the internet. I could avoid that by password protecting the archive(s). If the list members think that is a good solution, or have a better solution, let me know. Thanks! Toby Rider

Re: [abcusers] Progress towards a new abc standard

2001-12-06 Thread Toby Rider
John Chambers wrote: James Allwright wrote a week or so ago: | For those who have wondered what got discussed by the abc standards | committee, here is a summary of our discussion. The section numbers | referred to can be found at | | http://abc.sourceforge.net/standard-propose/

Re: [abcusers] what's the problem with the Tune Finder?

2001-10-11 Thread Toby Rider
. He has an account on one of my machines, maybe John will move it there. Toby Rider To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html

Re: [abcusers] REPLY SOON

2001-10-06 Thread Toby Rider
Nice try Mr. Ola. You just got yourself booted from the list for spamming! josh ola wrote: THE DESK OF: DR JOV B. OLA PRINCIPAL AUDITOR) NIGERIAN NATIONAL PETROLLEUM CORPORATION (NNPC) LAGOS, NIGERIA To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to:

Re: [abcusers] Missing the point by several miles

2001-09-29 Thread Toby Rider
Ha..ha...ha.. Jack Campin wrote: Steve Mansfield wrote: Someone (name with-held to protect the terminally stupid) has just posted the following to the feedback part of my abc tutorial site ... I AM VERY DISAPOINTED WITH ABC TO CONTINUE BILL MAHER TO STAY ON TV AFTER THE

Re: [abcusers] Re: A lot of people can't print PostScript

2001-07-16 Thread Toby Rider
. Saves me from having to buy an HP postscript printer with a jetdirect card. Toby Rider To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html

Re: [abcusers] unsuscribing

2001-01-25 Thread Toby Rider
"b.sallows" wrote: I'm trying to unsubscribe from the abcusers group for a while but keep getting a server error. Can anyone help please/ Brian Sallows To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html Send admin requests to me directly

Re: Why XML is a bad idea[longish] (was Re: [abcusers] draftfor V:)

2001-01-05 Thread Toby Rider
Wendy Galovich wrote: At 09:31 PM 1/5/2001 UTC, John Chambers wrote: ... In a couple cases, people have scanned in music so that others can transcribe it to abc. (This isn't unusual; it has been done with a lot of old documents, most notoriously with the Dead Sea Scrolls.)