X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,1fb6d9c85e2c7122 X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-04-06 16:12:38 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: Sun, 7 Apr 2002 02:11:36 +0200 Organization: Universitaet Hannover Lines: 67 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: 130.75.234.87 X-Trace: newsserver.rrzn.uni-hannover.de 1018138357 21135 130.75.234.87 (7 Apr 2002 00:12:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@newsserver.rrzn.uni-hannover.de NNTP-Posting-Date: 7 Apr 2002 00:12:37 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:16691 On 06 Apr 2002 Graham Drabble wrote: > On 05 Apr 2002 Andreas Freise wrote in [...] >> 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. > Interesting that you say he failed. The Google archives show it being > quite bus up until May 99 when it suddenly went dead. Am I missing > something? As far as I remember most of the regulars from a.a-a tried to get r.a.a going by fuelling it with reposts. Discussions, new pictures and diddles were cross-posted to both groups. Since nothing new started to happen in r.a.a, it was dead as soon as the "revival-by-repost" effort was stopped. [...] >> 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. > Maybe something in the Big-8, which should be carried at more sights, > would help. Sorry, I didn't get that, don't know the Big-8. [...] > I can find no evidence of him on the net since late 1999, I was hoping > someone in here might still be in touch. I don't think so. I remember someone else looking for him some time ago without getting anywhere. Better take the "other way", whatever that is. [...] > Posts must be tagged either > > [PIC] For pictures > [REQ] For requests or > [DIS] For general ASCII art discussion > > (There wil also be [ADMIN] for administrative things and [FAQ] but I > only see these being used by moderators.) > > The robomoderator will approve any post that has these tags (it will be > up to the community to enforce them although blatent disregard for them > may lead to being hand moderated) unless the poster appears on a list > of people who the moderators have elected for hand moderation. > Moderators will not edit articles, it will be a straight approve or > reject. Sounds reasonable. [...] > The system is built on the assumption that people will be reasonable > and that moderation will only be there to control spam. If this is seen > not to be working then it can always be changed. However the more > strictly controlled the group the more work for the moderators so I'd > like to keep it down if possible. [...] We do get a few trolls but those should be easy enough to filter. The rest definitely can be labelled sane and reasonable, I think. :) :) Andreas -- ________________________________________________ http://www.ascii-art.de