X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,6a26f9b022d570b X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public From: Bateau Subject: Re: Martians! Date: 2000/04/14 Message-ID: <6R73OHq9W8nXR8sTuGqFGWof1AyC@4ax.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 611115362 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <8cpgpf$k0c$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <38F1CD41.4FEB@earthling.net> <38F2E5E5.799F@earthling.net> <38F487A9.3B79@hotmail.com> <38F65D0A.393E@hotmail.com> X-Trace: news.iinet.net.au 955719681 4293 bn5bnh@203.59.92.154 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art On Fri, 14 Apr 2000 01:49:30 +0200 Veronica Karlsson wrote: >Peter Punk wrote: >> Veronica Karlsson wrote: >> > It didn't take me long >> >to figure out that certain pictures (e.g. Meriday in the Morning and >> >certain collections of roses, dragons, cows, Star Wars pictures, etc) >> >were old news. >> >> The are and almost everyone keep posting them. So tell _them_ to stop posting >> old news and not someone that posts his _own_ drawings. > >I don't have to. Other people already do that: > >http://www.deja.com/=dnc/[ST_rn=ps]/getdoc.xp?AN=563837555 > >When I see that file of roses (for example) here I know exactly what it >contains, nothing new, so I go to the next message. When I see a cartoon >I don't if it's a new one or an old one until after I've read the text, >so I end up re-reading old jokes. Awww! How sad!! Well you know, pretty much everyone else is still being entertained, and those reposts are still on topic, so if you're not being entertained sufficiently why don't you go watch some TV or get a boyfriend or a lover or whatever it is you need to spice up your pathetic life? >Also, the roses (or cows, or smileys, >or ...) usually show up in one post, not ten or fifteen or twenty. I >guess the problem is that I like JRO's cartoons. I want to see the new >ones. I'm sure he found your attacks very inspiring. >I'm not thrilled about having to dig through ten or more old ones >for each new one. :~( >I read somewhere recently that it's the ones who care >and who would like to see an improvement who complain, those who don't >like it [I think it was websites, but it could just as well be ascii >art] go elsewhere [ignore/killfile]. Then again, you read from us that it's the whiners who everyone who does care hates. -- ~ _ ~ . ` ' , ^~ ______ ^ >(')_, ~~ _ __, _ '.___ ; *BANG* ~ (_~_/ >(')_, ` (_~_/ >(')_, `'\ \ ^ ~^~~^~ (_~_/ ~^~~^~ (_~_/ ~~ ICQ:11367619 ~ ^~^ ~^~~^~ ~^~ ~^~~^~ email:smeggus at hotmail.com