Re: ASCII ART NOT LOOKING RIGHT? READ THIS!

Colin Douthwaite wrote:
>...
> Oh damn! Here we go again having to explain my jokes/messages/
> Shafts of Wit etc. <sigh>

That's not an HTML <sigh> I see there, is it Colin? Surely not ...

> I'm not getting at you, or your posting, but at the people for
> whom it regrettably has to be written...those  who do not get a few
> clues before they start posting their "priceless gems" to newsgroups
> and repeatedly stuff things up with malposted garbage et al. Bleah!
> 
> What I tried to convey was that if the people reading your excellent
> advice are seeing all the things you suggest they might be seeing then
> those people should go away and get themselves a new and better
> newsreader and/or web-browser and trouble us no more until they find
> one and test it out in the newsgroup "alt.test".

Colin, keep in mind that a `new and better newsreader and/or
web-browser' is *more* likely to give them problems, not *less*. Me, I
never had any trouble with Netscape News 3.0, but Netscape Mail and
Discussions 4.5 required some careful preference-setting.

> Alternatively, if they choose not to do that, then they should
> "Go fry their heads!"  Hah! Harumph!
>
>[pic]
>...
>         Couple of Clueless Newbies frying their own heads!

So I suppose you never were a newbie, Colin? Hmm? Dear, oh dear, oh
dear.

The newbies come back to haunt Colin in the middle of the cold southern
winter night ...


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