Douglas Thomas (bonsai@bonsaiweb.com) is the current maintainer of the information. Doug has been involved in bonsai for the past three years and maintains a small collection of trees at his home in Santa Monica, CA. Much credit for the FAQ's current form fgoes to its former maintainer, Dan Cwiertniewicz. For the past several years, Dan did a great job of formating the FAQ and keeping it continually updated.
Also, I would like to acknowledge Michael Johnson's work on converting the FAQ to HTML.
This FAQ is the work of many people, and often it is difficult to give everyone credit for their contribution. Suffice it to say that neither Dan nor Doug is not the originator of all of this information. If you have a correction or want to make additions to this FAQ, please let Doug know.
*- FTP sites -* The Bonsai FAQ is available via anonymous FTP from bonsaiweb.com.
A mail server also exists for accessing the FAQ archives. Send a
message to listserv@cms.cc.wayne.edu with the command:
GET BONSAI FAQ1
in the body of your message. Parts 2 through 5 of the FAQ
can be obtained by changing the number in the message above.
The entire set can be obtained by sending the message:
GET BONSAI PACKAGE
An anonymous FTP server for Bonsai GIFS (and other types of pictures) and other bonsai related files is available at bonsai.pass.wayne.edu (IP address 141.217.25.22). Login as anonymous and use guest as a password. You can put images in the /uploads directory, and get images from the /pub/GIFS directory. This allows the person responsible for the site a chance to check the files before anyone can get them, thus avoiding having the site terminated due to inappropriate material.
*- The Bonsai Mailing List -* For those of you who for one reason or another can not currently get a feed for rec.arts.bonsai, there may be another way to get in on the discussion there. Subscribe to the bonsai mailing list! Subscription is easy. Send e-mail to: LISTSERV@cms.cc.wayne.edu. In the body of the letter, have the line:
SUB BONSAI
The mailing list software will extract your mailing address from the message header, so you don't need to put that in your command. The messages in the mailing list are automatically posted to rec.arts.bonsai, and all of rec.arts.bonsai is automatically mailed to the subscribers of the mailing list! For a list of commands, send the command: help to the LISTSERV address.If you have trouble, you can contact Dan Cwiertniewicz (dan@pass.wayne.edu) for help.
*- Gopher Server -*
A gopher server is maintained at bonsai.pass.wayne.edu (141.217.25.22). Contained there are links to the FTP site, as well all discussions from the Bonsai discussion list from 1992 onward.
*- WWW Server -*
A World Wide Web server is available at the URL: http://www.pass.wayne.edu/~dan/bonsai.html This site is setup to show the work of the members of the Internet Bonsai Club. If you would like an area of your own, please contact Dan Cwiertniewicz.
*-European FTP site -*
The FAQ and some other bonsai related files are now available East of the Atlantic! If you prefer to get your copy of the FAQ without the use of one of the transatlantic channels, the address is: ftp.lysator.liu.se (130.236.254.1) The bonsai files are in /pub/gardening/bonsai.
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