X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,2edf1d803d783912 X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-07-05 06:11:11 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeeds.belnet.be!news.belnet.be!skynet.be!newsfeed.iinet.net.au!news.iinet.net.au!not-for-mail From: Bateau Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art Subject: Re: Who the hell is Tua Xiong and why is he respected? Date: Thu, 05 Jul 2001 21:05:50 +0800 Message-ID: <+2REO6HX7QPcx4rvZ+eiAho1Yf0n@4ax.com> References: <3B4412E9.69F3C69D@eskimo.com> X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.6/32.525 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 34 NNTP-Posting-Host: i196-020.nv.iinet.net.au X-Trace: news.iinet.net.au 994338465 20188 bn5bnh@203.59.196.20 Xref: archiver1.google.com alt.ascii-art:6537 Aiken Drum: Do you expect me to reply? Bateau: No Mr Aiken Drum, I expect you to die! >He stole the ASCII dragon I designed for a friend's BBS called Benden Weyr >(FidoNet 1:140/22.0, sysop Ken Read) back in the 80's. > >I just discovered that this person has taken my dragon and put his own signature >and a little added knight in the lower left corner. > >Well, he's a damned plagiarist. He didn't even steal the final version, sans >spikes on head, back, and tail (it was based on a spiky dragon from a calendar, >Forgotten Realms or something, I don't remember... might have been Smaug laying >waste in a Tolkien calendar now that I think about it). I removed the spikes >and tail to make it look more like Michael Whelan's Pern dragons. > >"His" version is lacking my signature ("BF 89" I think it was) and the tagline >for the BBS on the left. Alas, I lost my copy with the Commodore 64 it was >designed on (via Screen-80) and I dunno if Benden Weyr is still around. Heck, >is FidoNet still around? So... Grrrr fucking keyboard. Try http://www0.delphi.com/bendenweyr/ http://www.bendenweyr.com/ doesn't look like it. This is from a list made in 96: BENDEN WEYR 300/14400 928-7954 24 ?/PC CLONE And 98: Benden Weyr WWIV 9600 928-7954 Black Feather Which is apparently the delphi one. -- | _ .\ ~~ _ ^~ | <')_,/ , ; .\ >(')__, . ` ' , ,______________._ | (_~=/ \._`.'. .\ (_~_/ _, '------:_______ ;==( *BANG* | ='- \=~_) ; .\ ~^~~^~ ` (_~_/ | | `-\ \ *BANG* | -'= .\ ~^~ ~^~~^~ `~' \_; |ICQ:11367619 EMAIL:bateau:-)jupiter-io.net SITE:www.flashback-aw.net