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From: edias@cc.curtin.edu.au (Shanaka Dias)
Subject: Re: Why are all the ASCII's in my newsreader BAD???
Date: 1997/12/05
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llizard <cq547@freent.toronto.on.ca> wrote:

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>     _/   |      ,^%---
>    |_____|   __<   \ I vote "yes" to a mini FAQ on font education. 
>      ---  == -- >               
>    [_____]    __>,^  llizard aka ejm  cq547@freenet.toronto.on.ca
>ejm97|   |    //| |     www.geocities.com/SoHo/Studios/9334/


But will people actually read the mini-faq?
I remember when I first started posting to rec.ascii-art
I read the faq and lurked for a while before posting.
Even when I just lurked on rec.puzzles, I read the faq
totally, espescially because people were continually
being told to refer to it. I guess people are braver to
ask stupid now-a-days.

aaaah the impetuous youth of today! ;)

Perhaps whenever some newbie asks a faq question,
we should,

a) point them to the faq.

b) send them a copy of the faq.

c) tell the students of the Wright State University's
   CP2 class to mail them. Or tell Patrick Craig that
   the newbie is a CP2 hater.

d) get them to use llizards ISP's news server
   to keep up-to-date with the newsgroup

e) scar them for life by flaming them,
   then visit their house, kidnap their
   cat, tattoo our signatures onto it
   and dispute whose very own cat it is,
   then send them the faq!

e) all of the above.

Any other suggestions are welcome, but nothing silly! ;)
These could even apply to people that have the nerve to
claim other peoples ascii art as their own (ie Sho Magasuki
to name one!).


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