These archives were started by Mike Zecca and continued by me, Jon Reid. The original emails that made up the Crouton Generation episodes were collected into episode "packs", along with other TCG-related stuff, and placed in the archive. The archives have moved around a great deal; bits of them exist on other web pages, but the main FTP site (run by Robert "Neon" Tarrall) has been in use for many years. I recently decided to HTMLify the archives and place them on the web.
      As many of the files in the archive are text files of original emails, the HTML in them makes extensive use of the <PRE> tag. Given the script format of most of the episodes I felt it would be alot easier to display them as preformatted text rather than go through the now several megabytes worth of files and handcode the HTML. This way I was able to design some sed(1) macros to HTMLify the files pretty much automatically.
      However, because of the extensive use of the <PRE> tag in these archives, some of you using smaller monitors may find that you have to scroll left and right as well as up and down, and this gets mighty irritating after a while. There are two solutions for this:

1. Increase the size of your window. If your monitor simply isn't large enough to allow a big enough window, then:
2. Decrease the size of the fixed width font your browser uses to display preformatted text. In Netscape, select Preferences --> Fonts. Decrease the size of the Fixed Width font; as soon as you click on OK it should revise the size of the print on the screen. You may have to click the Reload button, though. I do not know how to do this with Internet Explorer...anyone want to help?

Users of Lynx and other text-only browsers should not have any problems as long as they're using an 80-column display.
      If you're having problems with anything, you can always drop me an email at jon @ apeiros . com and I'll do my best to give you a hand.

The Crouton Generation is not quite dead. Mike "The Admiral" Zecca is planning on writing a novella about Avenger's experiences with the Kobayashi Maru test at the Academy. I have written something similar for Crossfire, and I am working on the series finale "Not ALL Good Things..." which I'll post in the End section as I complete it. I'd also like to do a links page to link to Crouton Generation and Junk Mail alumni:  If you were on Junk Mail or TCG, email me at jon @ apeiros . com so I can assemble the information. (Plus I'd just plain like to hear from you!)