X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,1d16be2faaa9e20a X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-12-30 22:29:26 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!uninett.no!uio.no!nntp.uio.no!ifi.uio.no!not-for-mail From: Kjetil Torgrim Homme Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art Subject: Re: From someplace else Date: 31 Dec 2002 07:29:24 +0100 Organization: Dept. of Informatics, Univ. of Oslo, Norway Lines: 19 Message-ID: <1r7kdqzoor.fsf@vingodur.ifi.uio.no> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: vingodur.ifi.uio.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: maud.ifi.uio.no 1041316165 15978 129.240.68.200 (31 Dec 2002 06:29:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@ifi.uio.no NNTP-Posting-Date: 31 Dec 2002 06:29:25 GMT User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/20.7 Xref: archiver1.google.com alt.ascii-art:21299 [Faux_Pseudo]: > > I see posts like this in the pl group frequently but it seems I > and a few Slackware users I know are the only English speakers > doing this kind of work. ah, but it's very much alive among Norwegian and Swedish hackers -- of course I use the word "hacker" in its original meaning -- and I'm sure real hackers everywhere keep this tradition alive. in some newsgroups or forums (in a Portacom clone I frequent) the art of making geometric shapes is the most important motivation for posting messages. content to style ratio is often ~zero, nobody cares if the text is nonsensical if the rules for a tasteful "brick" are followed. e.g. hyphenation is considered cheating, and obviously, so is adjusting the spaces between sentences. a hidden message earns bonus points, can you see one here? -- Kjetil T. | read and make up your own mind | http://www.cactus48.com/truth.html