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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 28 Nov 2001.
Re: Ascii-Art Secrets #3

Re: Ascii-Art Secrets #3

____     On Wed, 28 Nov 2001 05:05:52 +0100
\__/___  joris bellenger ran through the
 LI-\o-' streets of alt.ascii-art
     |   waving an axe and screaming:
    / \
>Bateau wrote:
>> 
>> ____     On Mon, 26 Nov 2001 16:50:12 +0100
>> \__/___  joris bellenger ran through the
>>  LI-\o-' streets of alt.ascii-art
>>      |   waving an axe and screaming:
>>     / \
>> >Veronica Karlsson wrote:
>> >>   alt.romath
>> >>   alt.alien.vampire.flonk.flonk.flonk
>> >>   alt.fan.karl-malden.nose
>> >>
>> >> (The people there *love* ascii art, so ascii artists are always
>> >> welcome!)
>> >>
>> >I went to alt.romath once and after having read a few posts I still
>> >had no idea what these guys were talking about.
>> >:-/
>> 
>> Well, that's what it's like when you talk about flonk.
>> How do you like my new intro line?
>
>To tell you the truth, I think it's a waist of bandwidth.

This:
____     On Tue, 27 Nov 2001 22:13:42 +0100
\__/___  Peter "lastfuture" Marquardt ran through the
 LI-\o-' streets of alt.ascii-art
     |   waving an axe and screaming:
    / \

Is only 4 characters more than this:
On Tue, 27 Nov 2001 22:13:42 +0100, in alt.ascii-art "Peter
\"lastfuture\" Marquardt" <las...@lastfuture.de>, wrote in message
id <C=0DP...@4ax.com>:

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.
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Subject: Re: Ascii-Art Secrets #3
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