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From: Andreas Freise <adf@mpq.mpg.de>
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On Fri, 16 Feb 2001, Christian 'CeeJay' Jensen wrote:
[...]
> I also diddled the wings from an angel by Ojo found in same dictionary.
> Thankyou Andreas ! .. I love and use your site often .. for inspiration and
> admiration from and of other peoples work.

Thank _you_! Of course this is the best thing that can happen to a 
"collector": when the old pictures help to create new ones.

>  .. now that I mention Andreas's site .. I have a big wish I would like some
> comments on.
> 
> I would like to see a huge archive of searchable ascii-art like The Ascii
> Dictionary maintained like DMOZ.org does it .. OF the people , BY the people
> and FOR the people. (Where have I heard that before ?)
[...]

Ah, yes. That would be nice. And it wouldn't be too difficult either. Only,
it would cost money and it would require a number of people who could and
would keep working on it constantly for years. I doubt that ascii art 
can acquire the critical mass of committed persons for that.

Just to get an idea:
My own workload for my site is about an half an hour per day, either 
every day or accumulated to a busy night once a week. Plus the
times when I surf other web pages too. And I believe that to be the
minimum you can get - per person! More people would increase the 
quality of the collection but would not decrease the required 
effort - I think.

:)
Andreas