Re: Ascii Art Webring

"Joe Fischer" <gra...@shell1.iglou.com> wrote in message news:3d7...@news.iglou.com...
>
>       Right, I suspect there may be others like me
> that do not want to post good ASCII that children
> would like to see, in with all the drivel.


Dear Joe,

    My reason in posting, was about help for the ascii webring. If you aren't offering to help, why have you reposted to this
thread?  You're wasting my time, downloading a negative reply.  On the other hand, I appear to have opened a door to drivel with my
tongue-in-cheek delivery.

    My apologies, if this newsgroup is too drivelly... It's not my fault. It's the nimwits that do it.

    Honestly, schools shouldn't be accessing usenet. There is nothing but trash on it. I can't think of a time when there was
anything else BUT trash on it. Kids shouldn't have access to alt.anal.donkey.gangbang, or alt.binaries.sex.jujitsu. An institution
for children, of any age (up to and in many cases including universities), shouldn't be wasting money or time on providing access to
the kind of junk media that would even ALLOW the listing of such "groups". It's a free-for-all, and not a serious learning
environment. There may be instructional content ON usenet, but it's nature is the lowest common denominator... and that gets pretty
low.

    If schools are having problems with alt.ascii-art, I don't know why it isn't being filtered in the first place, along with
99.999% of the rest of the newsgroups available. Perhaps the folks running school-based networks could use a little more education,
themselves.
Personally, I know of a few schools that have internet access, which also maintain a usenet server. They carry a handful of relevant
newsgroups, some of them purely local.  Alt.ascii-art isn't one of the relevant ones.

    However, I do know of some teachers that download pictures from this newsgroup. They do it, so they can print them out and hang
them on the wall, behind their desk. I suppose this is "educational". Here's an old example of an educational cartoon of mine:

SISTERS______________________________________by JRO
|                                                 |
|        ____________________________________     |
|       /                                    \    |
|      / "Don't worry about it, Stacie. We're \   |
|      |  sisters. I'm sure you'll grow large  |  |
|      |   breasts too, when the time comes.   |  |
|      |   But don't forget what the French    |  |
|      |    say: "The perfect breast fits      |  |
|       \      inside a wine glass."          /   |
|        \_____  ____________________________/    |
|              |/                                 |
|        .-"-.                                    |
|       / __/\)                                   |
|      / ( o o         .-"-.                      |
|      )  \ o         (__   \                     |
|  _  / ( ) (_         o )   |                    |
| ( \)  /\   /\        \ |   /                    |
|  \ \-// \|/ \\       _)|  |                     |
|   \ \ \_____/ \     /_ \  \                     |
|    \_/ \   /> /     ||  \__\                    |
|        /_._\ /      ||    |                     |
|       /     \(      ||____|                     |
|       |__|__|       |/    \                     |
| _____ |  |  | _____ \|  | | _________________jro|
|       |  |  |        |__|_|                     |
|        \ | /          | | |                     |
|        | | |          | | |                     |
|        | | |          | | |                     |
|        |_|_|          |_|_|                     |
|       /__|__\        /__|_|                     |
|_________________________________________________|
|           __________________________________    |
|          / "OH, that makes me feel SO MUCH  \   |
|         /  BETTER. Do you know they also     \  |
|        |  eat LIVE SNAILS, and DON'T SHAVE    | |
|        |  THEIR ARMPITS? This is America, Sis.| |
|        |   if I don't grow a set of hooters,  | |
|         \           I'm finished!            /  |
|          \_________   ______________________/   |
|        .-"-.       \ |                          |
|`-._   / __/\)       \|                          |
|    `-/ ( o o         .-"-.                      |
|      )  \ -         (__   \                     |
|     / ( ) (_-._      o )   |                    |
|    )  /\   /\  `-    \ |   /                    |
|    `-// \|/ \\   /\  _)|  |                     |
|     / \_____/ \  \| /_ \  \                     |
|     \ <\   /> /   \\||  \__\                    |
|      \ /_._\ /     \_/    | ._                  |
|      )/     \(       |____|   `-._              |
|       |__|__|        /    \       `-._          |
|       |  |  |        |  | |           `-._      |
|       |  |  |        |__|_|               `-._  |
|        \ | /          | ||                   jro|
|        | | |          | ||                      |
|        | | |          | ||                      |
|        |_|_|          |_||                      |
|       /__|__\        /__||                      |
|_________________________________________oglesbee|

    There, now. That ought to learn somebody, something. Look at all the subjects it covers -
geography, foreign culture, familial relations, developemental biology... Here's one that covers some different ground:

KIDTOONS____________________________________________________by JRO
|_______________________________  _______________________________|
|                               ||                               |
|             "Well, it stands  ||                               |
|               for Foxville    ||                               |
|              Orchestra. Why   ||                               |
|      _____    do you ask?"    ||     "Sucker..."               |
|     /_/\__\       /           ||         \                     |
|     ( @ @ )      /            ||          \                    |
|     _\ - /_                   ||            \\\\               |
|    / \/|\/ \  ////            ||            ( oo               |
|    | |\:/| | (\\\)            ||             \o/               |
|___ | | . | |  \_/  /) _______ ||___________ /F-O\_____________ |
|    |_|_._|_| /   \//          ||            \\_//              |
|     \|   |/  \\_/\/           ||             //\\              |
|      | | |    |||             ||            // //              |
|      |_|_|    |||             ||           (_)(_)              |
|     (__|__)  (_(_)            ||                               |
|___________________________jro_||___________________________jro_|
|________________________________________________________________|

    Now that's educational.

    As to drivel on AAA, it seems to have reached a peak with automated asskey tools. You can take a program like JAVE, or EmACs, or
EmailEffects, and draw, trace, convert - ect., anything you want. Any idiot who can barely type a stickman (on his own) can make an
asskey picher with crap like that. This was a lot more fun, when people with a little talent and imagination were typing pictures
and posting them...   "Assisted" text-art is like "paint-by-number; who cares?  Text-art is far enough down on the "art" scale that
anybody using "tools" to help make it, is just about as flighty as helium.

    In conclusion, my advice is... Hell, I don't have any. Read/post or don't read/don't post, whatever you like. I'm not your
Principal.


    For more education, you can drop me a line.

 Be good,
  JRO

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