HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: epc@costello.mcl.ibm.com (Ed Costello)
Subject: *** ignore *** 
Summary: A posting test
Date: Fri, 02 Oct 92 20:13:53 GMT
Distribution: USA
News-Software: IBM OS/2 PM RN (NR/2) v0.12a by O. Vishnepolsky and R. Rogers
Reply-To: costello@pokvmcr3.vnet.ibm.com (Ed Costello)
Organization: IBM T. J. Watson Research


A test, yeah, right.
__________________________________________________________________-ed costello
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Newsgroups: alt.test
From: pascoe@rocky.gte.com (Dave Pascoe)
Subject: test
Organization: GTE/MSED - Needham Heights, MA
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 23:45:32 GMT


test ignore..

test
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From: mualla@pegasus.mbm.EDU (Mualla Neala)
Newsgroups: alt.test
Subject: test
Summary: <none>
Keywords: <none>
Date: 29 Sep 92 00:11:56 GMT
Organization: Madam Bovary Music School - Pensacola - LA

test 5 6 7 8
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Newsgroups: alt.test
From: christie.sbd-e@rx.xerox.com (Tony Christie)
Subject: This is a test
Reply-To: christie.sbd-e@rx.xerox.com
Organization: Rank Xerox, Welwyn Garden City, UK
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 14:04:37 GMT

Testing Testing 1 2 seventy three million :-)
From: clw@elm.circa.ufl.edu (Sean)
Newsgroups: alt.test
Subject: It's MY TEST!!!
Date: 27 Sep 92 05:43:04 GMT
Organization: University of Florida, Gainesville
From: cocking@csugrad.cs.vt.edu (Cara Cocking)
Newsgroups: alt.test
Subject: Re: a test
Date: 6 Oct 92 19:14:08 GMT
Organization: Virginia Tech Computer Science Dept, Blacksburg, VA

tomf@teal.csn.org (Tom Fredericks) writes:

>This is a test.
>	Tom...

This is also a test.

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cocking@csugrad.cs.vt.edu  |  into a brick wall"  -Paul Simon, "Gumboots"
From: minh@lis.rch.unimelb.edu.au (Minh Tran)
Newsgroups: alt.test
Subject: just a test
Date: 1 Oct 92 01:00:54 GMT
Organization: Computer Science, University of Melbourne, Australia
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]


testing .........

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From: mussack@innerdoor.austin.ibm.com (Christopher Mussack)
Newsgroups: alt.test
Subject: Test
Date: 25 Sep 92 18:04:48 GMT
Reply-To: mussack@innerdoor.austin.ibm.com
Distribution: usa
Organization: IBM Advanced Workstations Division Austin, Texas

Test

Chris Mussack
Newsgroups: alt.test
Subject: Testing .signiture (again) no reply
From: henwoogr@elec.canterbury.ac.nz (Gazza)
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 02:38:34 GMT
Organization: Electronic and Electrical Engineering Department, University of Canterbury, New Zealand.
Keywords: no reply

no reply testing for .signiture

Newsgroups: alt.test
From: ian@inf.ethz.ch (Ian)
Subject: test
Organization: Dept. Informatik, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH)
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 10:38:46 GMT


.sig
Newsgroups: alt.test
From: petragna@sju.edu (Joseph F. Petragnani)
Subject: This is a test
Organization: St. Joseph's University
Date: Sun, 4 Oct 1992 21:19:09 GMT

Testing L1 option.
From: P.C.Walker@bradford.ac.uk (Paul Walker)
Newsgroups: alt.test
Subject: nowt
Summary: summary
Keywords: ignore
Date: 4 Oct 92 22:18:31 GMT
Organization: University of Bradford, UK
Originator: 91657715@muser

another test!!!!
*yawn*
Newsgroups: alt.test
From: dunster@sdsu.edu (mark dunster)
Subject: dunstest
Organization: sdsu
Distribution: alt.test
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 00:47:10 GMT

test does my editor 

WORK

work

?
?
?

??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy fox and made it quite pissed off but who cares?
From: gbgxmpn@gptks.posten.se (Mats Pettersson)
Newsgroups: alt.test
Subject: Test ??
Date: 1 Oct 92 12:24:33 GMT
Organization: Swedish Postoffice

TEST !!
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From: julie@skatter.usask.ca
Newsgroups: alt.test
Subject: Re: again!
Date: 5 Oct 92 22:22:24 GMT
Organization: University of Saskatchewan

just testing!
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I hate it, but there's nothing 				Jules
I can do about it right now! 
	- Luke Skywalker.
From: gbgxmpn@gptks.posten.se (Mats Pettersson)
Newsgroups: alt.test
Subject: TEST
Date: 1 Oct 92 13:33:04 GMT
Organization: Swedish Postoffice

TEST 3
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Gothenburg Postterminal		!
From: RUNTING@licra.dn.mu.oz.au
Newsgroups: alt.test
Subject: Test12
Date: 26 Sep 92 08:56:46 GMT
Organization: Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research

Testing one, two, um... 
Newsgroups: alt.test,cornell.comp.misc
From: Benjamin.Fan@bbs.oit.unc.edu (Benjamin Fan)
Subject: Seeking local BBS w/News & Mail
Followup-To: cornell.comp.misc 
Organization: Extended Bulletin Board Service
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 02:02:51 GMT

Hello,

     I am looking for a local Bulletin Board System which
provides Usenet News and Electronic Mail access.  I've seen
several lists of local BBS's, including the one on CUINFO,
but I have yet to hear of one which provides News.   
Actually, that's not true-- there was one called Banana
(listed on that NIXPUB MEMO) which had what I was looking
for, but unfortunately it has moved away to Vermont!

     I am asking on behalf of "my friend" who wants Net
access.  My friend is *NOT* a Cornell student or otherwise
affiliated with Cornell, so sie cannot obtain an account
or NetID there.  

     I realize that there are ways to simply *read* News,
but sie wants posting privs, too.  I also realize that
there are certain public access unix services which
one could Telnet into and use (such as Netcom or World or
the one I am using now at UNC), but we want to eliminate
the middleman.  Local is what we want.

     Again, I haven't seen any such local BBS on any
lists, but things can change rapidly, so perhaps there
is one I haven't heard about.  If you know of any,
please mail me!

     Thank you for your help!

Ben
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Newsgroups: alt.test
From: greendog@insti.physics.sunysb.edu (Michael D. Fischer)
Subject: Test from inst/gnus
Organization: Institute for Theoretical Physics, SUNY at Stony Brook.
Distribution: alt
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1992 21:22:58 GMT

This is testing posting from GNUS on "insti"
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Newsgroups: alt.test
From: davet@granta.uchicago.edu (David Thomas)
Subject: davet ignore
Organization: University of Chicago, Astronomy and Astrophysics
Distribution: chi
Date: Sat, 3 Oct 1992 20:00:37 GMT


testings

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davet@granta.uchicago.edu           Astronomy and Astrophysics
Newsgroups: alt.test
From: trumpet-user@CS.ADFA.OZ.AU (Fred)
Subject: Re: test 123456
Organization: Computer Science, ADFA
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 1992 21:59:45 GMT

In article <jcl.34.716864812@photo.de> jcl@photo.de (Jean Claude Luppe) writes:
>From: jcl@photo.de (Jean Claude Luppe)
>Subject: test 123456
>Date: Sat, 19 Sep 1992 01:06:52 GMT

>I was sasdfpoqw3e ab;asdfwe with xyz (ab) in 1111-21 as both 
>asdfbasdf and badsf.  as was a bawt joy to f721 with. I q23-asde every 
>q09avl spent asfd her.
>ab 92885
asgasdf
Newsgroups: alt.test
From: anonymous@enuxha.eas.asu.edu
Subject: dsfsj
Organization: Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
Distribution: asu
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 17:27:25 GMT
X-Posted-From: enuxha.eas.asu.edu
NNTP-Posting-Host: sol.ctr.columbia.edu


Newsgroups: alt.test
From: petragna@sju.edu (Joseph F. Petragnani)
Subject: Yet another test
Organization: St. Joseph's University
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 20:55:33 GMT


TESTING
From: psulliva@neptune.informix.com (Paul Sullivan)
Newsgroups: alt.test
Subject: Hubba Hubba.......
Date: 2 Oct 92 20:22:56 GMT
Organization: Informix Software, Inc.


   Twisting and a torking.....
   Tracy I love you!!
Newsgroups: alt.test
From: Marcello Formica <@>
Subject: Ciao ciao
X-Xxmessage-Id: <A6F75EB376010B1A@mac1.di.unipi.it>
X-Xxdate: Tue, 6 Oct 92 14: 18:11 GMT
Organization: Computer Science Dpt. , University of Pisa
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1.1d9
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 14:16:44 GMT

Questo e' il mio primo test. A meno di non aver combinato un casino
dovrebbe arrivare...!
From: sm@sys.uea.ac.uk (Shaun McCullagh CMP RA)
Newsgroups: alt.test
Subject: test
Date: 2 Oct 92 15:26:04 GMT
Distribution: uk
Organization: UEA School of Information Systems, Norwich, UK.

test
From: sm@sys.uea.ac.uk (Shaun McCullagh CMP RA)
Newsgroups: alt.test
Subject: Sent from Zen via NN
Date: 3 Oct 92 16:40:19 GMT
Organization: UEA School of Information Systems, Norwich, UK.

Sent after tmp fix applied
From: davem@cs.umr.edu (Dave Mentis)
Newsgroups: alt.test
Subject: Pnews post
Date: 28 Sep 92 21:27:04 GMT
Organization: University of Missouri - Rolla
Originator: davem@mcs213i.cs.umr.edu

Looking for an autoreply from outside world.

       -- davem
From: mikes@bioch.ox.ac.uk (Michael Smith)
Newsgroups: alt.test
Subject: test
Date: 5 Oct 92 16:12:42 GMT
Organization: Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford
Originator: mikes@nmrf.bioch


this is a test using Pnews
Newsgroups: alt.test
From: petragna@sju.edu (Joseph F. Petragnani)
Subject: Testing...Please ignore
Organization: St. Joseph's University
Date: Sun, 4 Oct 1992 21:09:35 GMT

This is a test of using L0f flag.
From: t7062@moncol.monmouth.edu (CHEE TAN)
Newsgroups: alt.test
Subject: TEST :  Please ignore !!
Keywords: test
Date: 3 Oct 92 19:00:11 GMT

This is just a test !!

Please ignore !!


[ The opinions expressed are solely my own, but you are welcome to share them. ]
[              If you don't like them, that is your problem !!                 ]
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[ Chee Tan                                           t7062@moncol.monmouth.edu ]
From: ctutor@waggen.twuug.com (Cecil Tutor)
Newsgroups: alt.test
Subject: test
Keywords: test
Date: 3 Oct 92 23:37:39 GMT
Organization: Brite Systems

this is a test
Newsgroups: alt.test
From: ian@inf.ethz.ch (Ian)
Subject: test
Organization: Dept. Informatik, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH)
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 10:36:37 GMT
Organisation: European Space Operation Centre (E.S.O.C)
Date: Thursday, 1 Oct 1992 09:05:43 CET
From: <DNASTASZ@ESOC.BITNET>
Newsgroups: alt.test
Subject: Is this a record?.......

Good Morning,
My colleauge Ray Hunter has had sex with 27 mammals.

Is this a record?

Thanks,
Dave N.
Newsgroups: alt.test
From: gei@phdrw2 (Juergen Geinitz)
Subject: a test what else?
Organization: Kernforschungszentrum Karlsruhe GmbH,  Germany
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 15:22:04 GMT

this is a
simple test.
-- 
  gei@phdrw2.kfk.de  Juergen Geinitz +49 7247 82 4973 (voice)
Newsgroups: alt.test
Subject: damnthingbetterwork
From: sredmore@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz (S Redmore)
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 08:45:35 GMT
Organization: University of Auckland, New Zealand.
Keywords: sighhhhhhh....
Summary: whataday.

It's A beautiful day for learning NN.... sigh.
From: jeffs@almaden.ibm.com (Jeff Schneiter)
Newsgroups: alt.test
Subject: whatever
Date: 6 Oct 92 18:08:48 GMT
Reply-To: jeffs@almaden.ibm.com (Jeff Schneiter)
Organization: IBM Almaden Research Center

Place text here.

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|   Jeff Schneiter   |   jeffs@almaden.ibm.com    |   (408) 927 - 1498     |
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|    'Bob, open the garage door and get out the Maserati! Open up          |
|    the safe and get out the jewels!'"                                    |
|                                       Georgette Mosbacher,               |
|        wife of Robert Mosbacher, George Bush's campaign chairman         |
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From: sjjoos@uswnvg.com (Steven Joos)
Newsgroups: alt.test
Subject: need Cobb Groups Monthy downloads for ITC
Date: 5 Oct 92 05:42:56 GMT
Organization: US West NewVector, Inc., Bellevue, WA
Originator: sjjoos@nv2.uswnvg.com

Thanks, 
Steve Joos
N4MRN

Newsgroups: alt.test
From: pjs@sc.cs.appstate.edu (Jason Snyder)
Subject: Freddies is testing
Summary: This is a test (no-duh)
Keywords: Freddy
Organization: Appalachian State University
Distribution: alt.test
Date: Sat, 3 Oct 1992 05:19:54 GMT

This is a test 

Newsgroups: alt.test
From: greendog@max.physics.sunysb.edu (Michael D. Fischer)
Subject: new test max/pnews
Organization: Institute for Theoretical Physics
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 19:11:50 GMT

test

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Newsgroups: alt.test
From: st1te@rosie.uh.edu
Subject: tEsT
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: University of Houston
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 01:49:00 GMT

zzz
From: ballms@ctrvx1.vanderbilt.edu (BALLMS)
Newsgroups: alt.test
Subject: test
Keywords: test
Date: 4 Oct 92 00:09:00 GMT
Organization: Vanderbilt University
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

tuna,seafood,french restaurant, 
ganglia, test
From: shi@onsager..XRCC.Xerox.Com (An-Chang Shi)
Newsgroups: alt.test
Subject: Re: testing
Date: 29 Sep 92 21:12:58 GMT
Organization: Xerox Research Centre of Canada


testing!
Newsgroups: bne.test,alt.test
From: ensrich@kraken.itc.gu.edu.au (Maurice Rich)
Subject: test ... (for Barry) ...
Summary: testing 1 2 3 4
Keywords: tset test ... 1 ... 2 ... 3 ....
Organization: ITC, Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia
Date:  6 Oct 92 09:49:18 GMT

Hi Barry,
	 seems to be working now ....

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From: pahia@usc.edu (Andrew Pahia)
Newsgroups: alt.test
Subject: test
Date: 26 Sep 1992 17:40:33 -0700
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Distribution: la
NNTP-Posting-Host: aludra.usc.edu




test
From: clewis@cs.cornell.edu (Craig Lewis)
Newsgroups: alt.test
Subject: Test
Date: 5 Oct 92 16:32:01 GMT
Organization: Cornell University, CS Dept., Ithaca, NY

Test...
Newsgroups: alt.test,misc.test,uk.test,city.test,citycs.test
From: jmalloy@itsmail1.hamilton.edu (Joseph Malloy)
Subject: Re: Simply a test.
Organization: Hamilton College - Clinton, NY
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 20:40:24 GMT

This is a test.  This is only a test.  Please ignore this test.  Thanks
your ignorance.

Joe


Newsgroups: alt.test
From: minh@PROBLEM_WITH_INEWS_GATEWAY_FILE (Minh Tran)
Subject: just a test
Organization: Computer Science, University of Melbourne, Australia
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 00:43:43 GMT


testing ......

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Newsgroups: alt.test,uw.test
From: acwall@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu (Andy Wall)
Subject: testoid2
Keywords: test
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 19:21:56 GMT

This is a test. should end up in alt.test and uw.test.
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From: bcs@rama.UUCP (Brian Spollen)
Newsgroups: alt.test
Subject: more testing
Keywords: beyond the fridge
Date: 27 Sep 92 02:01:11 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Harris Scientific Calculations, Fishers, NY


looking for a caUSAl relationship

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Newsgroups: alt.test
From: jqtaylor@PROBLEM_WITH_INEWS_GATEWAY_FILE (John Quill Taylor)
Subject: test
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 17:10:35 GMT
Organization: Hewlett-Packard / Boise, Idaho
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1.4 PL6]

there is $1,000,000 hidden beneath a tree in central park to identify the
tree walk ten meters norewfijhfe  hwf wf wnef  nfwrg inw gn f ew fewfh w f
whe fwefhewhf whfw fhwfhwhf wilohwfehiouew8ufr32098r cu23fc 32ju90	rcu.

Newsgroups: alt.test
From: dunster@sdsu.edu (mark dunster)
Subject: dunstest2
Organization: sdsu
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 00:48:48 GMT

another                                  test                              fffffffffffffff




?
test

?



Newsgroups: alt.test
From: olevi@daimi.aau.dk (Ole Villumsen)
Subject: Test without a Distribution: line
Organization: DAIMI: Computer Science Department, Aarhus University, Denmark
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 92 09:20:32 GMT

I expect this message to be distributed all over the world, since I have
specified a distribution of 'world' when I posted it. The interesting thing
is whether its sibling message with a much narrower 'Distribution: daimi'
will also be seen outside my own department.
The sibling message has 'Subject: Test Distribution: line'.

Ole Villumsen
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Newsgroups: alt.test
From: isc10045@nusunix1.nus.sg (ONG MEAN CHIH)
Subject: This is a test
Organization: National University of Singapore
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 12:28:32 GMT

This is a test...
hee

Newsgroups: alt.test
From: dalton@nevada.edu (William Tiberis Felis Long)
Subject: SPAM
Organization: NCC 1701-F USS Enterprise
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 03:52:13 GMT




So you want SPAM SPAM bacon and SPAM eggs and SPAM?
Newsgroups: alt.test
From: kjohns@osprey.sim.es.com (Kyle Johns)
Subject: TEST
Organization: Evans and Sutherland
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 14:48:14 GMT

This is a test.

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Newsgroups: alt.stagecraft
From: tyoung@med.unc.edu (Therese Young)
Subject: gingerbread village
Originator: tyoung@pelham
Organization: UNC-CH School of Medicine
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 13:25:52 GMT


Hi.  I have to create a life size gingerbread village.  I have
never built a set or made props before in my life.  So I have
no idea what I'm doing.  Does anyone have ideas on how to 
create a cookie effect on plywood.  Maybe some kind of putty
covering the whole thing?  Any help would be appreciated.

Therese Young

Newsgroups: alt.stagecraft
From: cjr6495@tamsun.tamu.edu (Christopher James Rogers)
Subject: Reba Concert
Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 19:57:06 GMT

Hi!  I am not sure if this is the correct news group, but...

I wanted to say to any of Reba McIntire's crew that may be on, I really 
enjoyed working backstage with ya'll at Texas A&M.  It was great fun (even if
it was exhausting work), hope ya'll come back soon.

Later!
C J Rogers

Newsgroups: alt.stagecraft
From: CCEN077@USLVM.USL.EDU
Subject: Re: gingerbread village
Organization: University of Southwestern Louisiana
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 14:45:36 GMT

In article <1992Sep28.132552.1649@samba.oit.unc.edu>
tyoung@med.unc.edu (Therese Young) writes:
 
>Hi.  I have to create a life size gingerbread village.  I have
>never built a set or made props before in my life.  So I have
>no idea what I'm doing.  Does anyone have ideas on how to
>create a cookie effect on plywood.  Maybe some kind of putty
>covering the whole thing?  Any help would be appreciated.
>
>Therese Young
 
I would suggest using the kind of stucco people use on ceilings on the plywood,
or simply mixing sawdust with the paint used.  Also, if you have the ability,
if you make the houses out of styrofoam (backed with plywood for strength and
stability), it will have a natural texture that could easily be enhanced with
the sawdust paint, and it could be easily cut into shapes for the trim.  One
note of caution:  always use a breather and work in a well-ventilated area when
cutting styrofoam!
                                               Ellen
Newsgroups: alt.stagecraft
From: bernstei@romeo.cs.colorado.edu (Michael Bernstein)
Subject: Re: gingerbread village
Organization: University of Colorado at Boulder
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 21:55:02 GMT

In article <1992Sep28.132552.1649@samba.oit.unc.edu> tyoung@med.unc.edu (Therese Young) writes:
>
>Hi.  I have to create a life size gingerbread village.  I have
>never built a set or made props before in my life.  So I have
>no idea what I'm doing.  Does anyone have ideas on how to 
>create a cookie effect on plywood.  Maybe some kind of putty
>covering the whole thing?  Any help would be appreciated.
>
>Therese Young

Is your audience ten feet or more from your stage?  If so, then DISTANCE IS
YOUR FRIEND.  Most of the texture on standard flatwork is created by
paint.  In more intimate theatres you have to use a combination of real
and created texture, and of course on a movie set, the pieces used in 
close-ups have to be perfect.

Painting flats well is an art.  If you don't know a good flat painter, try
recruiting an art or design student, or someone else who is acquainted with
creating dimensional effects on canvas.

As far as building actual dimension into your sets, be advised that every
piece of wood you add will make a unit that much heavier.  

You don't say what style the show is.  If it's very presentational or
stylized, then you can get away with a lot more cartoonishness than if
you were doing a gritty, realistic show.  (Theatre = metaphor!)

Michael
Newsgroups: alt.stagecraft