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From: Graham Drabble <graham.drabble@lineone.net>
Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art
Subject: Re: Reviving rec.arts.ascii
Date: Sun, 07 Apr 2002 10:47:00 +0100
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On 07 Apr 2002 Andreas Freise <adf@mpq.mpg.de> wrote in
news:or2o8a.226.ln@adfpc.amp.uni-hannover.de: 

> On 06 Apr 2002 Graham Drabble wrote:
>> On 05 Apr 2002 Andreas Freise <adf@mpq.mpg.de> 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. 

Thanks for that, I hadn't been checking for cross-posting. Maybe this 
time people might like to cross-post the original article and then set 
Followups to raa only. Hopefully that will encourage more people to 
subscribe.
 
> [...]
>>> 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.

The big 8 is comp.*, humanities.*, misc.*, news.*, rec.*, sci.*, soc.* 
and talk.* and come from the original set of newsgroups. alt.* was 
split off in the mid 80's and generally hasn't had as good coverage 
although this is changing.

> [...]
>> 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. 

The other way involves contacting Tale (David Lawrence, the man who is 
in charge of the Big-8 creation system and the moderator relays) and 
pursuading him that the group is dead. The second part of that will be 
easy however he is very busy and it can take quite a while to get 
through to him. However once I've sorted out a few technicalities with 
Brian about how we will handle the group I'll start chasing.

<snip> 

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