X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,fa4f0e1502e45982 X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-11-29 02:32:36 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!212.120.170.19!not-for-mail From: grue@mail.ru (Timofei Shatrov) Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art Subject: Re: Ascii-Art Secrets #3 Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 10:31:21 GMT Lines: 36 Message-ID: <3c060863.1014106@News.CIS.DFN.DE> References: <5EcKYPA4Fq$7Ewro@shieldwolf.demon.co.uk> <3BFEC7C0.C7A07FC8@xs4all.nl> <3BFED862.9EA4B52@hotmail.com> <3C0264B4.7BCFCED@xs4all.nl> <1uQCPHUmlHz+fAl1PFlOJbeiia0f@4ax.com> <3C0462A0.F1BFD3D7@xs4all.nl> <1103_1007023625@news.xs4all.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: 212.120.170.19 X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 1007029955 6565290 212.120.170.19 (16 [101885]) X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.21/32.243 Xref: archiver1.google.com alt.ascii-art:11910 On Thu, 29 Nov 2001 08:47:05 GMT, joris bellenger tried to confuse everyone with this message: >On Thu, 29 Nov 2001 00:00:29 +0800, Bateau Address.com> wrote: >> >> How do you like my new intro line? >> > >> >To tell you the truth, I think it's a waist of bandwidth. > >[snip] > >> People have this insane notion that more lines = more >bandwidth when >> it comes to intro lines and sigs even when the lines are much >shorter. > >Much shorter than what? > >your intro line is: 181 bytes >the default intro text is (in this case): 175 bytes >your sig is: 175 bytes > >Anyway, you asked (!) what we were thinking of your intro line. >Don't complain if you don't like the answer. Mine was obviously >too suttle for you. I actually meant: Your intro line sucks! > I like it. It's a great innovation that now people would use ascii-art not only in sigs but in attrib-lines too. It's a major breakthrough in the world of ascii-art. -- GRUE@|And to auoide tediouse repetition of these woordes: is equalle to: MAIL|I will sette as I doe often in woorke use, a paire of paralleles of RU|one lengthe, thus ===, bicause noe .2. thynges, can be moare equalle. GRUE.FREESERVERS.COM|Robert Recorde,"The Whetstone of Witte',1557.[4*72]