I'm back (was: Re: Stupid fonts!!!)

Colin Douthwaite wrote:
> 
> llizard <cq5...@freent.toronto.on.ca> wrote:
> 
> >(I added the "Do you still have questions? Please go to alt.ascii-art
> >FAQ by Matthew Thomas for the full picture." to the other
> >asciichart.htm#top as well.)
> 
> Hmm...how long will we have to wait for Matthew Thomas to reappear
> and update/maintain his New FAQ ?  The university is back from the
> summer vacation but no sign of Matthew Thomas returning to the Net
> yet.
>
...
> 
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 ...

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

*   Who keeps a copy of the FAQ on their Web sites? As I said just
    before I left last year, I'd like to set up a script so that
    whenever I update the FAQ these people get e-mailed the HTML version
    (with stuff like GeoCities advertisements and custom colours added
    to particular copies).

*   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 ...

*   What happened to all the spammers? They seem to have disappeared.
    Does this mean it's safe for me to start using my real e-mail
    address in the header?

*   Does anyone use alt.ascii-art.animation any more?

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

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

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
*   updating the list of Web versions of the FAQ
*   checking all the URLs (of course).
But I don't see anything else major which needs doing ...

And just to keep everything on-topic, here's an ascii-artwork hot off my
keyboard:
----
         .
          '               Q.  What did people in Auckland use for
        /(                    lighting before they had candles?
       (())
       ,`',               A.  Electricity!
      (|"T|
      `| ;|
       | o|    ,-,--.     [Auckland, NZ, currently going through a
  ..--_|  |_--!./  |:|    severe power shortage]
 /.'"( |__| )"`.\ .'!'
 \`.  `----'  .'/"""
  `"-::::::::-"' mt-02
----

The candle's mine, the joke isn't.

That's all for know, folks!
-- __
  /_/\   Matthew Thomas, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, NZ
 _\_\/_  http://kiwipages.co.nz/matthew.html
/_/\/_/\ My real address is mpt26 @ student . canterbury . ac . nz
\_\/\_\/ `Authors of great quotes are remembered forever' -- Unknown

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