X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: f996b,b217f9de36ff9682 X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public From: Veronica Karlsson Subject: Re: Time for a new FAQ? [ plus a tiny fraction of my ascii collection... ;) ] Date: 1997/11/02 Message-ID: <345CCE45.167EB0E7@on.spammer>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 286613772 References: <345C0907.165F@spamfree.land> <345C4E45.794BDF32@on.spammer> <345CC3CB.2329@slip.net> Organization: University of Lulea, Sweden Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art Randy Gardner wrote: > > 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. > I see two problems with this... One is that it sounds way too complicated (it might work well for people who build their own hardware, they are used to doing things the complicated way and enjoy that, people who come here want to look at pictures, which requires a different minimum level of patience...) and the other is that this might have unwanted effects when people post with faked email addresses... (and I know that *I* am NOT going to open my mailbox for another flood of spam like I got when I posted from Dejanews a couple of weeks ago!!! quite frankly I'd rather not post at all...) > > "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...... :-) What? Am I being too rough on him? I don't think so! :D:D::DD > > If someone can go from nil to FAQ master in their first post, > it means one of two things: 1. smart. 2. lier. > Or 3. looking for attention... (or maybe this is a variation of 2, which doesn�'t necessarily exclude 1?) > > * 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! > :D:D:D YES! [ 8< ] > > (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: > hehe, that and the fact that a plastic bag is _cheaper_... > > > > 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 > Really? I seem to remember all my math teachers calling that one "undefined"... > Also defined by x=0 > unless of course you turned it all around and made x=f(y), but then it wouldn't make much sense compared to the other numbers and you would still end up with one slope undefined (and no I will not take this math discussion any further! this is alt.ascii-art not alt.math.nitpicking!) > 5/1 4/1 3/1 2/1 1 > : : : : : > : : : : : > : : : : : > : : : : : > : : : : : > : : : : : > : : : : : > : : : : : > : : : : : > : : : : : > interesting! :) > 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. > I thought one of the basic ideas here was that you _don't_ know exactly what font somebody is going to use, except that it has to be a monospaced font... -- _ ____ _ _ _ _ _ _ __ _| |__/ __ \| |_ _ __| |__| | | |_ _| |_| |_ ___ ___ \ V / / / / _` | | || / _` / _` |_| | || | _| ' \ _(_-