X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,65f6e9a9181678d0 X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-11-14 08:12:53 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!cyclone.bc.net!newsfeed.direct.ca!look.ca!brick.direct.ca!brie.direct.ca.POSTED!not-for-mail Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii From: llizard Lines: 90 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2001 08:10:07 PST NNTP-Posting-Host: 216.154.38.24 Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art Organization: via Internetdirect, Canada; zone 6A (or is it 5b?) References: <9sjb2j.b0.1@Lucida.Console.Fans.International.Organization> <3BF04C4C.D72372E0@xs4all.nl> <3BF26060.573611B7@xs4all.nl> <3bf283b7.10134432@news.concentric.net> Reply-To: llizard@idirct.ca Subject: Re: An apple! X-Complaints-To: abuse@look.ca X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.8/32.548 X-Trace: brie.direct.ca 1005754207 216.154.38.24 (Wed, 14 Nov 2001 08:10:07 PST) Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2001 11:12:50 -0500 Xref: archiver1.google.com alt.ascii-art:10302 In article <3bf283b7.10134432@news.concentric.net>, mikechat.remove@bluedwarf.spam.net (MJP) wrote: [snip] >I do not object to the converted pictures being posted >here, and TAL doesn't claim authorship of the converted pictures, so I >don't see this being a real issue. > > .--------------------. > |My only complaint is| > |the ASCII/dialog | .--.--. > | ratio | .; .;|;. ;. > `-------------. ,---' .;_;' `;_;. > \| ; ;' `; ; > \ ;;'.--.___.--.`;; > ;-( o )=( o )-; > ( `--' | `--' ) > \| . . |/ > ........... . .:::::. . .______ > / . '---` . '\ [snip] > >Mike I must say that I don't usually bother looking at the conversions at all. I have only two major objections to them being here: /| | _|_. Often there is no credit given to the original creator of the image being converted, whether it is a photographer or someone who has wielded a writing implement or someone who has used a computer graphics program. _ ' ) / /__ . They lead to inane arguments about what can be defined as "art". ObASCII-art: ____ | ___|___ ______|| | \ ____|| _ /_ | \\ __||( `' ) | \\\ || `~~' | \\\||_______| \ ha ________ .^%--- ha |________| < \ ha |________| \/ > Scanner.... | | > | | /|^^ ejm \ \ , ( ) <-- crabapple Above apple taken from: "Dip the Apples in the Honey" | | | | _ /_ | ( `' ) | `~~' | | _ /_ | | -Lee Lawrence- ( `' ) _\ _ __---`~~'--( `' )--__ ||||||||||||||||||||||| | _ _ _ __ ___ | | \_|_/ __|_ | | \_________________/ found at Andreas Freise's wonderful ASCII-art archive: http://www.ascii-art.de -- llizard aka ejm >%^7^^^7^^ llizard@idirec+.ca ASCII-art & ASCII-animation www.crosswinds.net/~llizard/ascii-art/ NOTE: If you are e-mailing and hit the reply button, add an "e" to "idirct"; its absence is to stop the torment of automatic mailers.