Dear Fellow Far Side Enthusiasts, I have finally completed what turned out to be a time stealing, but most interesting project: collecting and editing your submissions as favorite Gary Larson FAR SIDE cartoons. Needless to say, I was overwhelmed at your response from around the world. Hundreds of you wrote and, since I had not seen many of Larson's cartoons, you (and of course he) entertained me no end. (My friends don't understand why I suddenly start giggling with no evident cause.) In any case, thank you all for your wonderful responses. Now my problem is how to get over 2000 lines of text to each of you. I have already had some complaints about spamming and I want to handle this responsibly. To do this I have set up a personal WWW site where you can access ten Farsidexx (xx = 01, 02,...,10) files, each of which contains about 200 lines of your messages edited down for brevity, as well as the text of my column. You can access these files through: http://ubvms.cc.buffalo.edu/~insrisg/index.html (Note that I am no expert at this. It took my several tries with much assistance to set up this site, but now I believe that it is working okay.) This should work for many of you, but I do not want those of you who do not know how to or cannot access WWW to be left out. If you wish me to mail you these files, send me an e-mail request. Please send it directly to me, not to your whole mailing list. Either address below should do it. I worry that the whole group of files may well overload some of your accounts. If that is a concern for you as well, tell me and I will try to work something out: perhaps send two files a day over a period of time. (Here I go again!) I will send hard copies of these files to Gary Larson. Thanks again for your tremendous response. I am proud to have been, even so briefly, associated with each of you -- and, of course, with this remarkably creative artist. Best regards, Gerry Gerry Rising phone: 716-689-8301 295 Robinhill Drive messages: 716-645-3175 Williamsville, NY 14221-1639 fax: 716-645-3161 ---- e-mail: [log in to unmask] or [log in to unmask]