X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,6a26f9b022d570b X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public From: ppunk@damnthatspam.hetnet.nl (Peter Punk) Subject: Re: Martians! Date: 2000/04/14 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 611275293 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> Organization: Total Disorganisation 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 provoked the following text: >> >Then I can only conclude that you have exceptionally lousy news feed. >> I have been saying so on numerous occasions, but of course you already knew >> that. >Actually, no. A lot of people complain about bad news feed. It's usually >not the kind of thing I bother to memorise. Well, in my case the feed was _really_ terrible, i was lucky to see 10 posts a night! Fotunately, my ISP seems to have fixed whatever ailed the newsserver (WHOOPEE!) >> They 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: >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. 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. Then if you like his cartoons so much, why don't you just try and stimulate him in a way that's not annoying to anyone. You know by now what gets people upset and what not. >I want to see the new ones. Of course you do, so do i. But art thrives on inspiration, not on remaks like "seen that, why don't you post something new". If i adressed you like that, what would _you_ react like? >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]. They may complain, but they should also _do_ something about it or their complaints are nothing more than hot air. >> >And you're saying that you do? >> No, but i'm not complainig when someone _does_ post art either, whether it's old >> or not, it's ascii-art and that what this group is for. >OK, he's not on the same level as Meriday, but he's certainly driving in >that direction! I disagree, in the past he made so many different pieces of art that he could go on longer than the meriday pic. But i agree on the amount a day he posted, it _was/is_ a little much, i'd liked to see the archive-posts (as i will call them) spread out over a longer period. But apart from that piece of criticism i still enjoy(ed) his posts. >> You still missed a few. They're not much to look at, but you still missed them. >No, the expression is not "missed", it's "not saved". This was from my >"Misc. Stuff" file, mostly consisting of things I have saved lately. >Maybe you made some things I didn't save. Yeah, but not much... -- Peter Punk \ / ---\\\\--- / \ Visit my MIDI-site at http://members.xoom.com/miditation There is a Massachusetts law requiring all dogs to have their hind legs tied during the month of April.