X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: f996b,846dba58d63d8931 X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-02-13 12:00:34 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!feeder.qis.net!sn-xit-02!sn-post-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail From: midimagicmusic@yahoo.com (Roland) Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art Subject: Re: HELP! COULD SOMEONE PLEASE TELL ME WHAT'S HAPPENED TO JOAN STARK, Spunk1111? Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 20:00:06 GMT Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com Message-ID: <3c6ac234.1160020@news.cox-internet.com> References: <3c69866b.2192225@news.cox-internet.com> <3c6a9e6a.6049232@news.cox-internet.com> <3c6aad00$0$22403$edfadb0f@dspool01.news.tele.dk> X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.21/32.243 X-Complaints-To: newsabuse@supernews.com Lines: 52 Xref: archiver1.google.com alt.ascii-art:14659 You might be right, CeeJay. However, for a long while now, both URLs revert to http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/7373/ with the message, "Sorry, this site is temporarily unavailable! The web site you are trying to access has exceeded its allocated data transfer. Visit our help area for more information. Access to this site will be restored within an hour. Please try again later." I have not been able to access this address for many months. Too, I have never seen this message before, no matter how many hits a URL was receiving per day. Earlier, Joan left http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/7373/ and got her own URL address at http://www.ascii-art.com/ The latter address is the last that I saw of her web page. I think she may be gone from both alt.ascii-art and the Net. Wherever she is, I know a lot of people wish her well. And you are right... others have disappeared, too. -Roland On Wed, 13 Feb 2002 19:15:14 +0100, "CeeJay" wrote: >> Same here, Phydeaux... >> Joan Stark's ASCII web site is not available at either >> http://www.ascii-art.com/ >> or http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/7373/ >> anymore. >> It appears that she has vanished from the Net... >> She was the undisputed Queen of ASCII Art in every forum >> I ever saw her work in. >> Keep looking. Somebody, somewhere knows what's happened. >> -Roland > >OK .. relax now.. >Her site IS on the net .. it's just so popular that is often exceeds the >bandwidth limit on GeoCities. > >As for Joan herself I do not know .. but sometimes people take a break from >ascii-art , newsgroups and computers even. >2� years ago I took a 1 year break and then resumed creating ascii. >.. I seem to be on a break too when It comes to creating new stuff right now , >but I'm just so swamped in work that I lack the energy and inspiration to do it >frequently. > >Joan probably have a reason. > >There are also other wellknown ascii-artist that dont post here anymore. >I haven't seen Krogg for ages f.x > >