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From: Colin Douthwaite <cfbd@southern.co.nz>
Subject: Re: Gallery of Ascii Artists *Update*
Date: 1998/07/02
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"Meindert de Jong <{:- <tpejong@rcl.wau.nl> wrote:
>>Oh, I dunno, when Meindert de Jong came over here about 2 years ago
>>I had a printed out version of his Gallery portrait for identification
>>at our first meeting...he was quite amused and took the print back
>>to Holland with him. :-)
>>
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>Dear Colin, Yeah that was wonderful two years ago. In March
>of this year I visited Christchurch again. I couldn't reach
>you via your E-mail address, unfortunately :-(

Yes, I had my public address spamblocked last year. Because I do a 
lot of posting to newsgroups I was getting 150 junkmails a month and 
growing fast so the time had come to do something about it. :-( 

I will contact you by private email soon.

> So I decided to give you a telephone call while at the YMCA.  
> However, I had no time to contact you since I was too busy.  
> (Besides I had a flare-up: could hardly walk for a few days.) It's 
> too bad. 

Sorry to hear your health condition is still causing lots of 
problems but you did well to make the trip back here and your first
visit must have been successful enough to get a recall to NZ.

> I hope there will come a next opportunity.  Perhaps next 
> year or in 2000?  Best wishes, Meindert 

Maybe. In the meantime you can always post some pictures here.  :-)

Regards,