Re: TIME TRAVEL IS *POSSIBLE*

Cyril Kiely <cki...@indigo.ie> wrote:


>Colin Douthwaite <cfb...@southern.co.nz> wrote in article
><909...@mnementh.southern.co.nz>...
>> Wow!  Does this actually mean that this crossposted spamming has 
>> produced a potentially potent new Ascii Artist?

Yes, but I think if you consider what I said carefully, I did indeed 
acknowledge that a horrid unwanted crossposted Spam had indeed been 
responsible for showing you that the newsgroup, alt.ascii-art, 
existed?...and _not_ that you had crossposted/spammed your responses.  
 

> You on the other hand have crossposted a number of large ascii 
> drawings to all the NG's since then. 

Yes, fair comment.

It is hoped by so doing that readers in the other spammed newsgroups
will realise that the thread is indeed a Spam and will take action 
to minimise it from where _they_ are sitting in other newsgroups.
It also should indicate that alt.ascii-art readers like, and expect,
pictures.

You might have a chance of stopping regulars in alt.ascii-art from 
posting but how will you stop people in the other newsgroups from 
crossposting to alt.ascii-art unless you ask them or tell them to stop?


> For someone who was complaining about the thread being crossposted 
> since your complaint. All the recent crossposted follow-ups to 
> this that I have seen are from you or else they are direct replies 
> to crossposts from you . 

I think if you review those responses you will discover that many 
are coming from the originators/perpetrators of the Spam who do not 
like their Spamming being heavily attacked. The others are probably 
from posters who want to throw some shit at me.  That's normal.


The main problem in alt.ascii-art is that regular readers here, who 
might have been expected to know better, have taken part in the 
thread and have also left the crosspost range of affected newsgroups 
unaltered.  Some of them have not even offered pictures in their 
responses ( basic part of the "culcher" here.)


But what has been the most disappointing aspect of this acrimonious 
thread is that most of the regulars here apparently could not care 
less about Spamming and have, publicly, done nothing to stop it. 

Nope, their only contributions have been totally negative...mainly 
giving me arseholes for my own efforts, good or bad, effective or 
useless...they are perfectly entitled to be negative and 
abusive...and I am also entitled to respond to them.

That's the name of the game in Flame Wars!

I'm not here in alt.ascii-art to win Prizes, Accolades, Friends, 
Popularity or Adulation...either as an Artist... or as a person. I'm 
here to try to enjoy the newsgroup...but sometimes it does not prove 
an enjoyable experience. C'est la vie!  


So, like Popeye...

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