source file: mills2.txt Date: Thu, 14 Nov 1996 09:25:47 -0800 Subject: RE: From Brian McLaren From: PAULE Yes, Web search engines are dumb, but that doesn't mean the user has to be dumb too. "Microtonality" is not really a very common word. Try "microtones," "temperament," "just intonation," etc. I find new stuff every time I sit down at a browser. Last time I found out that a recent issue of Leonardo Music Journal had two articles on Javanese tuning. I started reading them at the library last night, and thought to myself, THANK GOD FOR WEB SEARCH ENGINES! Sure, the Web is a mess, it's not user-friendly, and leads to a lot of dead ends, but so is the real world! Makes life interesting. An internet full of McLaren-approved web pages sounds like an Orwellian nightmare to me. Just as Brian expresses himself though raving posts to this list, so must each of us express our creativity/insanity through idiosyncratic Web pages. Received: from ns.ezh.nl [137.174.112.59] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Thu, 14 Nov 1996 21:23 +0100 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA09100; Thu, 14 Nov 1996 21:24:33 +0100 Received: from eartha.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA09140 Received: from by eartha.mills.edu via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id MAA11529; Thu, 14 Nov 1996 12:24:30 -0800 Date: Thu, 14 Nov 1996 12:24:30 -0800 Message-Id: Errors-To: madole@ella.mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu