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Original Usenet thread from alt.ascii-art, started 8 Aug 1998.
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rec.art.ascii

alt.ascii-art · 2 messages · 8 Aug 1998 - 9 Aug 1998
gap...@vcn.bc.ca ASCII art 8 Aug 1998 00:00 · permalink · report
Or SOME name like that... a group that was described as "a sort of best of
alt.art.ascii"; whatever happened to it?  It was gone for a year or two then
popped back into existence briefly and now appears to be gone again. . . :( It
was a moderated newsgroup that usually had some really good stuff... Why's it
gone?  :(

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Leaps higher than an AOLer flame,
It's line noise...it's a power surge...it's. . .
Cyberpope in da HOUSE!!!!!!

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(Cyberpope, servant to Y'shua the King!)

Colin Douthwaite <cfb...@southern.co.nz> ASCII art 9 Aug 1998 00:00 · permalink · report
gap...@vcn.bc.ca wrote:

>Or SOME name like that... a group that was described as "a sort of best of
>alt.art.ascii"; whatever happened to it?  It was gone for a year or two then
>popped back into existence briefly and now appears to be gone again. . . :( It
>was a moderated newsgroup that usually had some really good stuff... Why's it
>gone?  :(


Because it is a moderated newsgroup but nobody uses it...so the 
newsgroup's Moderator sits and waits for someone to send him messages 
that he can approve.

That's what happens with moderated newsgroups...if there is no 
traffic or very low traffic then they just die.

The only way to revive rec.arts.ascii is for the moderator to 
request David C. Lawrence to make it an unmoderated newsgroup. I'm 
fairly sure that the current moderator, Don Bertino, is unwilling to 
do that. 

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                                       -After/Targon (Ed Wisniewski)-

Bye,

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