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Intro, Deleting posts

Intro

This is an archive for the tuning list at Yahoo Groups, and its offshoots such as tuning-math and harmonic_entropy.

If you have posted to any of these, and want your posts included, send an e-mail to tuning_archive@rcwalker.freeserve.co.uk

It is opt in. Posts are part of a discussion and one should be aware that they are not to be considered as finished material in any sense. Some only want more carefully considered material to be archived. So, if you want to be in it, you need to let me know that you want your posts included.

I'll also make a cd-rom of it, and send it to members, who then can copy it and send it to other members. It will be for members of the group only.

Posts remain the copyright of the original posters.

If you'd like your posts to be archived, but with some restrictions, e.g. not on-line searchable, or not on the cd, or whatever, let me know in the e-mail.

It would be possible to hide posts from the search engines. The way I'd do it is to make another on-line archive with only the contents page showing up in search engine results - with the contents page cross linked from the fully searchable archive. I'll do this if there is enough interest.

I probably will only have space on this web site for the most recent posts, and the rest will be on a zip.

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Deleting posts

If you want to delete a post from the archive, make a list of the dates to delete.

It will make it easier for me if you can copy the original date field, especially if you have a fair number of posts to delete. To do this: copy and paste the date field from the archive (e.g. highlight it on the web page, use Ctrl + C to copy, then Ctrl + V to paste).

However, for those who can't do that, just tell me what dates you want to delete and I'll make the list for you.

By way of example, this is my list of entries to delete (deletes a message that I posted to tuning instead of MakeMicroMusic by accident, and my follow up message to apologise for it)

"
Wed, 28 Nov 2001 11:42:46
Wed, 28 Nov 2001 11:46:15
"

If you look at the contents page for a section, you will see a list of posts by author. So you can just go through all your posts in that list and copy and paste the date for each one you want to delete, so I hope it won't take that long even if you have a lot of posts to delete. This is the easiest way I can think of to do this, short of doing it via an on-line site with cgi scripts etc.

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