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From: Bateau <ItsFAKE@Not-A-Real-Address.com>
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Subject: Re: ASCII Art Fart for Sun, Jan 21, '01
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 15:26:49 +0800
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On Mon, 22 Jan 2001 05:29:05 GMT see@the.end.of.my.post (Veruschka)
wrote:
>IMHO, I don't think sending complaint to Alcyone.com would help, because it seems to me that Tran is part of the gang that owns the website.  Take a look at the
>main page (namely http://www.alcyone.com), you will find that they list several people as their 'members'.  I believe that by 'members' they don't mean people
>who are subscribed to their web space service (like those members of GeoCities, Tripod, and the like), but instead these are people that are members (as in
>employees, or even owners) of this web-design company (or whatever it is) called Alcyone Systems.  Thus it's no use to make complaint.
>
>I guess the best thing you can do, if you find Tran's posts so irritating and unbearable, is to killfile him.  For me, I never find his posts THAT irritating,
>but perhaps because I am not sophisticated enough an ASCII-artist having the *honour* to have my ASCII art abused by him. :-) Anyway, just ignore all his posts.
>After all, I would rather be forced to withstand posts by fools, trolls, spammers, etc., than having some sort of rules or regulations that govern the Usenet
>(not to mention the entire Internet).  I believe in the freedom of speech! :-) 
>
>That said, I actually want to recommend you to go visit this person's page at Alcyone.com: http://www.alcyone.com/oo/ I really like the ideas of it --and it
>makes me realize the magical & fascinating uses of the letter "o" !!! ;-)
>
>Just put in my 2 cent worth --don't flame me, I am NOT trying to defend Tran! :-)
>
>ObASCII: (see? my ASCII art is too unsophisticated to be Tran's target! :-)

Woah, lower your word wrap man.
Maybe you could complain to area.com, which is alcyone's host.
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