Re: 4th Anniversary of alt.ascii-art 6

Al Tinsley (al...@hangar18.nospam.demon.co.uk) wrote:

> [I tried to send this to you by e-mail only Colin, but I kept
> getting a 'you can not send to that mailbox' error, so it'll have
> to be here instead...I was sending to 'cfb...@southern.co.nz']

Yep...regrettable...reason is too much unsolicited junkmail...increasing
every month at an alarming rate :-(


> I can see that you wanted to post the Diana stuff with the proper
> credits for the pics used and had you asked if you could use the
> flag like this I would not have objected. In most cases I don't mind


OK. My apologies for the diddle of your original Welsh Flag below:


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         | |____....----....____         _
         | |\                . .~~~~---~~ |
         | | |         __\\ /(/(  .       |
         | | |      <--= '|/_/_( /|       |
         | | |       }\~) | / _(./      ..|
         | | |.:::::::\\/      --...::::::|
         | | |:::::::::\//::\\__\:::::::::|
         | | |::::::::_//_:_//__\\_:::::::|
         | | |::::::::::::::::::::::::::::|
         | |/:::''''~~~~'''':::::::::::::'~
         | |        DrS         ~~~~~



I had been trying to remember who "DrS" actually was and although I
searched my archives I could not find your real name or your email
address. I now realise, too late, you were in Daniel Au's Net
Surfers Licence collection.

Even so it is doubtful that I would have contacted you to ask
permission to fly your Welsh Flag at half-mast.  In fact any email
which bounces back to me I do not attempt to re-send, and, I see that
you use a spam-blocker in your address for that purpose, so my emails
to you would probably have bounced and I simply abandon such munged
addresses nowadays. The downside is that one then has to go public in
the newsgroups...and...be more careful what you say.  :-)


However, I readily confess to being a Diddler of other people's artwork.

As a Diddler who has done a diddle it is then always difficult to
know what to do about accreditation.


Sometimes I leave the original intact ( as in your case ) because it
seemed a minor diddle to move the flag down to half-mast with no
other change.

Sometimes I use "After/DrS" to indicate a diddle.

Sometimes I use "DrS/A. Diddle" to signify an un-named diddler.

Sometimes I add a footnote like  [  Original artwork by DrS  ]

Sometimes...if it is a major change of picture...I use only my
own name ( cfbd ).


Now...the crunch question is what do you want me to do to make
amends for my misdemeanour with your Welsh Flag ?

Post an apology to every newsgroup in which my compilation of
flags as a tribute to Princess Diana has been posted over the
past few days ?

Perhaps " Original picture of Welsh Flag by Dr S...lowered to
half-mast by cfbd "  ?   Would that do ?

Then of course I'll get lots of flak for re-posting apologia in the
relevant newsgroups. *8-)


Please respond here in alt.ascii-art newsgroup and tell me what
I must do to make amends apart from this public apology to you.

Bye,

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