Fractal visionaries and enthusiasts: When I sent a test to the Fractint list through my mindspring address this morning, I found that the access block had been removed. But when I tried to send this message later in the day, it bounced. Apparently, the block is still in effect, but sometimes my messages take a different route through a server that is not blocked. Until I am sure the block is totally removed, I will post through this business address. With the list problem hopefully winding down, things are getting back to normal here at FC. Ideas for my upcoming FOTD web site are starting to take shape. To speed things up, I will re-use the main page I designed for Paul's FOTD web site. I am already reworking some of the images from April, 1997, which was the month when I began the FOTD. It will not be too much work since many images are already fine as is. I will post the address of the web site as soon as I have the month of April, 1997 up and running to my satisfaction. The discussions I wrote at this early point of the FOTD are rudimen- tary by current standards, but I will post them as is. Many of the more recent discussions contain controversial off- topic stuff that I omitted from the versions I posted to the Fractint list. The discussions that will be posted on the new web site will include this deleted stuff that is sure to offend the more sensitive fractalists, or those with 'sacred cows', such as conservative or liberal politics, religion, rational thinking, science and technology, or political correctness in general. As for the ongoing FOTD -- as soon as I get the month of April 1997 completely up and ready for viewing on the web site, I will try alternating days of working on the web site with days of posting new FOTD images and discussions. I really was at the boiling point when the Feb 27 FOTD bounced, and I feel I acted hastily when I completely scrapped the FOTD. It is hard to estimate the time required to get the first month ready. I hope to finish in a week or so. But with 168 months of back FOTD's to work on, and finishing one month a week, it will be over 3 years before the web site is up to date. We will find short cuts as we go along of course, and FL has volunteered to help when things are slow, so this time will probably be cut. As for things here at Fractal Central on Monday -- the day began with heavy rain and thunder. The rain ended by midday but the clouds hung on until nightfall, while the temperature ranged around 50F 10C. The fractal cats, who were lying low while I was in a bad mood, were quite playful as they chased each other up and down the hallway, ducking in and out of the book stacks on the hall shelf. I'll keep in touch on the list as the web site takes shape. And the FOTD is not quite as dead as earlier claimed. I will post it on an every-other-day basis as soon as the first month's FOTD's are up and running on the new FOTD web site. Until when- ever, take care, and this little episode might have been just the kick in the butt I needed to get really moving on the web site. Jim Muthjamth@mindspring.comjimmuth@earthlink.net