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From: Tim Bannister <bannist7@cs.man.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: My first attempt
Date: 1997/11/19
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> |Or am I miles out here? (I know I have the L wrong.)
> 
> That would be "*emislav sko*kovki" ...?
> Well... I don't think that was a Russian name. Sounds quite Polish to me.
> But anyway, how can you make that letter in ascii? 
> /\ ...?
> ___
> J | ...? That doesnt look bad, but it consumes 2 lines

I like /\.  It looks like a modern greek lambda, and I've seen it used on 
lots of "trendy" Russian shopfronts.  It was even used in a Russian exam 
I took.  There's no need to use old, strict serif typefaces when it's 
obviously an L.


Tim Bannister - bannist7@cs.man.ac.uk
/~|    | | +--   --. | |   /\   | /~\
\_|    +-+ +-     -| +-+  /__\  |=| |  - should say:
/ |    | | +--   __/ | | /    \ | \_/  I don't know!