Alan writes: << Wouldn't it be nice if we could somehow really separate the conversations into discrete wholes? What a resource that would be, and I'd have less need for cognitive maalox (aka Alaskan Amber)! >> Oh, we have been over this before! Our archives are bloated, and searching is much less efficient than it would be if the "conversational" posts were tossed. There are a number of list members that treat the list as an email drop, and carry on totally off-topic, limited interest, meaningless to anyone else, worthless "me-too" conversations that have absolutely NO technical value. It might be interesting to search by author,(is that possible?), and notice who's postings are relevant to pianos and whose are not. Maybe if we could list how many posts were ascribed to what member, it would become evident where the chaff is. Or maybe, there might be some way that members can be allowed to remove any of their own posts from the archives, and then we could all join in on a clean-up; ending up with a tight, concise, archive of piano technology! ( I might be dreaming, here). Regards, Ed Foote RPT http://www.uk-piano.org/edfoote/index.html www.uk-piano.org/edfoote/well_tempered_piano.html
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