X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,1fb6d9c85e2c7122 X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-04-05 11:43:59 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news-han1.dfn.de!newsserver.rrzn.uni-hannover.de!adfpc.amp.uni-hannover.de!nobody From: Andreas Freise Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art Subject: Re: Reviving rec.arts.ascii Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2002 21:34:03 +0200 Organization: Universitaet Hannover Lines: 46 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: 130.75.234.87 X-Trace: newsserver.rrzn.uni-hannover.de 1018035838 27093 130.75.234.87 (5 Apr 2002 19:43:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@newsserver.rrzn.uni-hannover.de NNTP-Posting-Date: 5 Apr 2002 19:43:58 GMT X-Face: %XhMERdBemohx4TB/zw0f`1Y%d}y10tjY4RjzCc&DWou4VZc;7iz#f3F8a-V|hA9Ief>mYBeoVep0^f#tV{;TrhZPPKPLwl^F&mypu*u0*YcWt0P}%kYb~C..+}_[2!%&THVkvA8c0:"~[\*~0O*$\1zDa5eIlG User-Agent: slrn/0.9.7.4 (Linux) Xref: archiver1.google.com alt.ascii-art:16643 Hi Graham, Graham Drabble wrote (05 Apr 2002): [...] > The > fact that it is dead is, IMO, a shame and I am interested to see of > there is any wish from others to get it going again. Anything about ascii art is good and I believe a.a-a turns away some people who would enjoy r.a-a. Of course Don Bertino has tried to revive r.a-a once and failed. Personally I believe that the special, sometimes trashy, character of a.a-a makes a more creative background than any moderated group could offer. At the moment there is not enough activity here (or in VK's chat?) to divide that further. Instead we must hope to create new interest and thus new artists. So, be prepared for a low-traffic newsgroup. If you think, you can stand a long dry period before customers come rushing in then, yes, go ahead! [...] > spam) would be passed to a human moderator. There are other set ups > possible but this strikes me as the best. Comments welcome on preferred > other ways of doing it. Anything that is fast. Especially if there are only a few posts it is easy to "forget" about it (as the moderator). And then usually people started cross-posting it to a.a-a where it appeared earlier, started a discussion, etc., etc. Soon everything had already happened even before the post made it through to r.a-a. > With regards the mechanics of moderating the group it would be handy if > I could get hold of the old moderator and let him OK it. There is > another way but it can take a while. The last moderator I have found is > Don Bertino. [...] The name is right and he hasn't been seen here for ages. Well, go ahead. I think the group should become alive! Only I fear that you will not have much to do as a moderator but then it doesn't hurt, does it? :) Andreas -- ________________________________________________ http://www.ascii-art.de