Re: Time for a new FAQ? [ plus a tiny fraction of my ascii collection... ;) ]

Veronica Karlsson wrote:
> If you can come up with a completely fool-proof way to ensure that
> all new computer users get to know basic netiquette before jumping
> into the newsgropus then you deserve a Nobel Prise! What can you do
> more than present the FAQ(s) regularly and answer newbie questions
> as they do pop up? (please make suggestions! improve the situation,
> please!)

In news:alt.comp.hardware.homebuilt , we solved it by haveing a
cancelbot which will cancel a new persons posts until they inform
it that they have read the FAQ, sending them a copy every time
they try to post anything.  This way we are assured that all
posters have read the posting guidelines.

> "this is my first post ever" and "I wrote a new FAQ" in the same 
> post!? Prepare to be torn to pieces! :D:D:D:D:D:D

Now now...... :-)

If someone can go from nil to FAQ master in their first post,
it means one of two things:  1. smart.  2. lier.

> * Messages asking the same question somebody asked yesterday!
> 
> * Messages asking the same question somebody asked the day before
> yesterday!
>
> * Messages asking the same question somebody asked last week! (DO
> SOME DIGGING! USE DEJANEWS!)

*Messages asking what was asked in the post just above it!

> (Longer lines look more _impressive_....)

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|MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM|
|These lines should all be the exact same lenth, if not, new font!

> > ASCII art can be drawn using any text editor, such as the Windows
> > or Macintosh Notepads, any of the various Emacs editors, BEd or AZ
> > on the Amiga, and so on. (Using a word processor to draw ASCII art
> > is like using a sledgehammer to crack a walnut -- it can be done,
> > but it is difficult to do properly.)

Not so, a good wordprocessor has many features not found in the
simpler ones, but just make sure you save it as ASCII text!

> how about "edit" in DOS...

I like DOS edit.


> (or just drawing it with a pen on a plastic bag... you don't have to
> have access to fantastic technology like photocopying to oh-philm...)

What?!?!?!  You mean I'm the only one who owns two copy machines?!?!?!
:D  C:  :D  C:  :D  C:  :D  C:  :D  C:  :D  C:  :D  C:  :D  C:  :D  C:


> 
>      3/1    2/1     1/1     2/3     1/2
> |    |      /      /      .'      .'
> |    |     |      /      /      .'
> |    /     /     /     .'     .'          1/3
> |   |     |     /     /     .'         .-'
> |   |     /    /    .'    .'        .-'
> |   /    |    /    /    .'       .-'       1/4
> |  |     /   /   .'   .'      .-'      _.-'
> |  |    |   /   /   .'     .-'     _.-'       1/5
> |  /    /  /  .'  .'    .-'    _.-'      _.--'
> | |    |  /  /  .'   .-'   _.-'     _.--'      1/6
> | |    / / .' .'  .-'  _.-'    _.--'    __.--'     1/7
> | |   | / / .' .-' _.-'   _.--'   __.--'    __..--'
>               _.-'  _.--'   __.--'   __..--'    1/8
>                _.--'  __.--'  __..--'   __..--''
>                 __.--' __..--'  __..--''
>                 __..--' __..--''
>                 __..--''
>                -------------------------- 0
> 

You forgot to label the first line, |.
It should be:

+oo or -oo

Also defined by x=0

5/1 4/1 3/1 2/1      1
 :   :   :   :       :
 :   :  :    :      :
 :  :   :   :      :
 :  :   :   :     :
 :  :  :   :     :
:   :  :   :    :
:  :   :  :    :
:  :  :   :   :
:  :  :  :   :
:  :  :  :  :


Note:  If you are sure of the font someone is going to view it with,
you can make better lines useing the horizontal posistions of the
charectors. As in some charectors are further left or right in
the same charactor box.

-- 


--ran...@slip.net
--Randy Gardner

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