Re: I'm back

Matthew Thomas <mpt...@spamfree.land> wrote:

>Erhm, did someone call me? Yes folks, I'm back! I'm a bit busy at the
>moment (Stage 3 university is a little bit busier than Stage 2, you see
>:-), but I've been keeping up with a.a-a over the last 1 1/2 weeks and I
>am about to retouch the FAQ. Before I do that, though, I have a few
>questions about things which have happened in my absence ...

 
Speak of the Devil ?  *8-)


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> *   Who posts the FAQ, and how can I e-mail them? (I never 
>    actually saw any posting happen, I don't think.) 

Krog has been posting the FAQ quite frequently in your absence.


> *   Is rec.arts.ascii up and running again, and if so, why? Just 
>     before I left last year I noticed someone volunteering to be 
>     moderator, and then when I arrived this year there were some 
>     messages in it, but since then it seems to have died ...  

Don Bertino, the former moderator, turned up again in the New Year 
and announced that the group was in business again. There was a brief 
flurry of postings...then it died again. Krog modified your FAQ to
mention the revival of r.a.a. 

Moderated newsgroups just die if people do not post enough traffic
to keep them going...then the moderator loses interest and goes 
AWOL...and the group dies another death.

The only way to make rec.arts.ascii viable is to de-moderate it and 
that cannot happen unless the incumbent moderator makes the 
suggestion to unmoderate to the Moderator of news.announce.newgroups,
David C. Lawrence ( Usenet King ) and Don Bertino will never be 
willing to do that...so the newsgroup stays dead.

Nobody can unmoderate a newsgroup and nobody can force a moderator 
to vacate the position against their will...Usenet moderation is a 
Mickey Mouse system.  


> *   Is this leave-sigs-on/take-sigs-off debate EVER going to end?

I think you mean credits of the artist being left on artwork instead 
of being stripped ?  No, it will never end because stripping has 
been a tradition since Ascii Art first appeared. All the Stephen 
Sullivan collections were stripped on compilation and he could never
remedy that.


> *   Does `Miss Kitty' have a REALLY bad attitude, or what?

Miss kitty doesn't think so. :-)


I would be interested in reading any suggestions for changes in the 
next version of the FAQ. At the moment I plan: 

> *   updating (or not) the section explaining the demise of
>    rec.arts.ascii

Best of luck...it comes and goes at the drop of a hat and is totally
unpredictable. 


> But I don't see anything else major which needs doing ...

I would like to see Martin Atkin's "FONT.FAQ" either included in the
main FAQ or perhaps issued as a separate standalone Mini-FAQ. 
You could check with Martin Atkins on this...he does not post it
regularly himself:

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From: "Martin Atkins" <zne...@ovtsbbg.pbz>
Subject: Re: Stupid fonts!!!
Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art
Message-ID: <01bd408c$26a09860$LocalHost@atkins>
Date: 3 Mar 98 21:57:40 GMT


.----- Queen of Freshwomen <sie...@ameritech.net> wrote...
| AARGGGGGGH!!!!  I am soooooo frustrated.  I remember a while back
| I read something about how if the ascii pics were messed up
| looking, you could try using a different font to view it.  But I
| forgot which one, and it still looks crazy, and I'm going to burn
| my computer, and then kill everyone at Microsoft, and then take
| over the US, and declare war on mars.....anyway,
| PLEASE  HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!
'-------------------------------

Here goes:

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          Courier
          Lucida Console
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          Monotype.com
          Terminal
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          Siesta
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          XCourier (Comes with MagicWB)
          ascii
          tiny

AppleMac: Courier
          Monaco
          ZTerm

Just find your system on the list and match up a font from the list
up to a font on your system.

I Hope this helps! :)

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