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Original Usenet thread from alt.ascii-art, started 6 Jan 1998.
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Need some rowing pics

Need some rowing pics

alt.ascii-art · 14 messages · 6 Jan 1998 - 16 Jan 1998

Hi, Does anyone have any rowing pics.

My friend runs a rowing club, and would like some for his news.

Thanks in advance

Cool Beans

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Miss Kitty <mis...@global.dyn.ml.org> ASCII art 7 Jan 1998 00:00 · permalink
-> From: ea6...@zen.sunderland.ac.uk (MARK.ADAM.PORTER)
-> Hi, Does anyone have any rowing pics.
->
-> My friend runs a rowing club, and would like some for his news.
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Praseodymium 59 <pra...@geocities.com> ASCII art 8 Jan 1998 00:00 · permalink

Miss Kitty escreveu na mensagem <884...@global.dyn.ml.org>...
|-> From: ea6...@zen.sunderland.ac.uk (MARK.ADAM.PORTER)
|-> Hi, Does anyone have any rowing pics.
|->
|-> My friend runs a rowing club, and would like some for his news.
|                          o,    o__              o_/|   o_.
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|                     (`-/-------/----')      (`----|-------\-')
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| � * Kitty's Keep BBS * Fullerton, California USA * 714-871-2227


         o_,    o_.     o_,
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 ~-~-~-~/~-~-~-~-~\~-~-~-|-~-~-Pr
       Q           Q     Q

Hey, how about this one? It's only the third ASCII that I made!! :-)
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llizard <cq5...@freent.toronto.on.ca> ASCII art 9 Jan 1998 00:00 · permalink
In article <693gt9$8f...@brown.telepac.pt>, "Praseodymium 59"
<pra...@geocities.com> wrote:
> 
> Miss Kitty escreveu na mensagem <884...@global.dyn.ml.org>...
>
> |-> From: ea6...@zen.sunderland.ac.uk (MARK.ADAM.PORTER)
> |-> Hi, Does anyone have any rowing pics.
> |->
> |-> My friend runs a rowing club, and would like some for his news.
> |                          o,    o__              o_/|   o_.
> |                        </     [\/              [\_|   [\_\
> |                     (`-/-------/----')      (`----|-------\-')
> |~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~@~~~~~~~@~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~@~~~~~~~~@~~~~~~~~
> |---
> |  * Kitty's Keep BBS * Fullerton, California USA * 714-871-2227
> 
>          o_,    o_.     o_,
>   (`\___{L/____{L_\____(K_I___/�)
>  ~-~-~-~/~-~-~-~-~\~-~-~-|-~-~-Pr
>        Q           Q     Q
> 
> Hey, how about this one? It's only the third ASCII that I made!! :-)
> --
> Praseodymium 59
> pra...@geocities.com | ICQ UIN [4191789]
> http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/5992/Praseodymium.html - [Keep Out]
> 'It takes more than luck to make a man' - Blind Zero http://blindzero.esoterica.pt

But _THAT'S_ paddling! ( - excellent pictures, but being the compulsive
person I am, I must insist again that _THAT'S_ paddling not rowing.)

Here are some rowers from my "their ascii-art" files:

unknown artist
                                                o
         o     o  o  o  o  o  o  o  o  o  o    \/)
       _(\____/_)/_)/_)/_)/_)/_)/_)/_)/_)/_)____\_____
   ______\___/__/__/__/__/__/__/__/__/__/________\ /_______
                                                  \

And here are some quick attempts from my memory of rowing:

ejm98      o
          /V)    
    _____//\/______
-~-~ `--/--------'  -~-~
 -~-~-~-~  -~-~  -~-~-~-~


ejm98       o
          /--)    
    _____//\/______
-~-~ `--/--------'  -~-~
 -~-~-~-~  -~-~  -~-~-~-~


ejm98       o
          \--)    
    ______/\/______
-~-~ `------\----'  -~-~
 -~-~-~-~  -~-~  -~-~-~-~

ejm98         o
           /\/)    
    ______/__/_____
-~-~ `---/-------'  -~-~
 -~-~-~-~  -~-~  -~-~-~-~


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Andreas Freise (ad...@mpq.mpg.de) wrote:
: Spunk1111 wrote:
: > go to this site:
: > http://www.intelenet.net/clubs/gasp/ascii-art.html
: > Jackie Fenton has created lots of ASCII of sea-kayaking...
: > some are quite good!!

: Really! Yes, they are quite good _and_ funny. Why did I 
: never come across that page before??? :(

They are great. But it seems she's missed a few <'s.
In particular, in the duck hunting image there's one < which
has not been replaced by a &lt; entity. It messes up all the
rest of the page, as Lynx thinks it's seeing some weird tag..

Wouldn't it be wonderful if people validated their pages?

(sigh.. I'll have to update my own doctypes, as KGV now
seems to consider the default variant of HTML 4.0 to be the
strict version. Either I'll have to specify the transitional
one, or remove all layout attributes - something which I'm
not going to do just yet..)

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http://www.sci.fi/~iltzu/

Spunk1111 <spu...@aol.com> ASCII art 9 Jan 1998 00:00 · permalink
>Subject: Need some rowing pics
>From: mis...@global.dyn.ml.org (Miss Kitty)
>Message-id: <884...@global.dyn.ml.org>
> From: ea6...@zen.sunderland.ac.uk (MARK.ADAM.PORTER)
>-> Hi, Does anyone have any rowing pics.

go to this site:
http://www.intelenet.net/clubs/gasp/ascii-art.html
Jackie Fenton has created lots of ASCII of sea-kayaking...
some are quite good!!

-joan
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Andreas Freise <ad...@mpq.mpg.de> ASCII art 9 Jan 1998 00:00 · permalink
Spunk1111 wrote:
> go to this site:
> http://www.intelenet.net/clubs/gasp/ascii-art.html
> Jackie Fenton has created lots of ASCII of sea-kayaking...
> some are quite good!!

Really! Yes, they are quite good _and_ funny. Why did I 
never come across that page before??? :(

Thanx for the hint Joan! :)

Andreas

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Spunk1111 <spu...@aol.com> ASCII art 12 Jan 1998 00:00 · permalink
I received email from Jackie--
She wasn't extremely happy about me sharing her
URL with the newsgroup.  Her collection has personal
significance to her and she has posted copyright
notices on her page.   Her pictures are lovely to
look at-- but she doesn't want people to use them
in their signatures...   Ooops, sorry to all that I may
have mislead.
-joan
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   {{{{{{{;.___.;}}}}}}}        certain things-- right now
    {{{{{{{)   (}}}}}}}'    I'm so far behind, I'll never die!
     `""'"':   :'"'"'`   
   jgs      `@` 

>Subject: Re: Need some rowing pics
>From: ilt...@sci.fi (Ilmari Karonen)
>Message-id: <696cs3$m4...@tron.sci.fi>
>: > Jackie Fenton has created lots of ASCII of sea-kayaking...
>: > some are quite good!!
>: > http://www.intelenet.net/clubs/gasp/ascii-art.html
>They are great. But it seems she's missed a few <'s.
>In particular, in the duck hunting image there's one < which
>has not been replaced by a &lt; entity. It messes up all the
>rest of the page, as Lynx thinks it's seeing some weird tag..
>Wouldn't it be wonderful if people validated their pages?
>(sigh.. I'll have to update my own doctypes, as KGV now
>seems to consider the default variant of HTML 4.0 to be the
>strict version. Either I'll have to specify the transitional
>one, or remove all layout attributes - something which I'm
>not going to do just yet..)

Spunk1111 wrote:
> 
> I received email from Jackie--
> She wasn't extremely happy about me sharing her
> URL with the newsgroup.  Her collection has personal
> significance to her and she has posted copyright
> notices on her page.   Her pictures are lovely to
> look at-- but she doesn't want people to use them
> in their signatures...   Ooops, sorry to all that I may
> have mislead.

So what are they doing on the net then? If you don't want things to be
seen don't put them out in public!

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Ilmari Karonen wrote:
[ 8< ]
> 
> Wouldn't it be wonderful if people validated their pages?
> 

Sure, it would be very nice, but I don't see what it has to do with
ascii art.

> (sigh.. I'll have to update my own doctypes, as KGV now
> seems to consider the default variant of HTML 4.0 to be the
> strict version. Either I'll have to specify the transitional
> one, or remove all layout attributes - something which I'm
> not going to do just yet..)
> 

This is news:alt.ascii-art, not news:comp.infosystems.www.authoring.html

People here might not know what you mean when you write words like
"doctypes", "KGV", "HTML 4.0", "strict version", "transitional one" and
"layout attributes", and I don't see why they should - in this
newsgroup.

IF you still want to mention it here you should at least provide a
simple explanation saying that "KGV" is short for "A Kinder, Gentler
HTML Validator", which can be found here: 
http://ugweb.cs.ualberta.ca/~gerald/validate/

You could also add that it is a tool that can be used to determine if
your html code is correct or not. I'm sure that those readers here who
are interested in such things can realise how something like that can be
useful, but it is still off-topic for this group.

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 _\.'_'      _.-'   \ V / -_) '_/ _ \ ' \| / _/ _` |  `-._      `_`./_
( \`. )    //\`      \_/\___|_| \___/_||_|_\__\__,_|    '/\\    ( .'/ )
 \_`-'`---'\\__,                                       ,__//`---'`-'_/
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Randy Gardner <ran...@slip.net> ASCII art 13 Jan 1998 00:00 · permalink
Veronica Karlsson wrote:
> This is news:alt.ascii-art, not news:comp.infosystems.www.authoring.html

You got that right!!!!    :-)
 
> People here might not know what you mean when you write words like
> "doctypes", "KGV", "HTML 4.0", "strict version", "transitional one" and
> "layout attributes", and I don't see why they should - in this
> newsgroup.
>
> IF you still want to mention it here you should at least provide a
> simple explanation saying that "KGV" is short for "A Kinder, Gentler
> HTML Validator", which can be found here:
> http://ugweb.cs.ualberta.ca/~gerald/validate/
> 
> You could also add that it is a tool that can be used to determine if
> your html code is correct or not. I'm sure that those readers here who
> are interested in such things can realise how something like that can be
> useful, but it is still off-topic for this group.

Well.....  People can use it to check thier HTML ASCII......  :-)

Personally, I don't like AKGHV, it's to nice....  I use Weblint in
pedantic mode to make _sure_ all mine pass.............


But, it *is* off, topic, so:

 _______________________
|                       |
|                       |
|                       |
|                       |
|        _______        |
|       || OFF ||       |
|       ||     ||       |
|       |/""""/||       |
|       /    / ||       |
|      /____/ /"'       |
|      |____|/          |
|                       |
|                       |
| "|" |"| |") "|" |"    |
|  |  |_| |"  _|_ |_  RG|
 """""""""""""""""""""""


Much better!  :-)

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--ran...@slip.net  (Randy Gardner)
--http://www.slip.net/~randyg/index.htm  - *New*  Download a maze
  program that lets you actually walk *inside* the maze!!
  And, see my HTML!!!!    :-)

llizard <cq5...@freent.toronto.on.ca> ASCII art 13 Jan 1998 00:00 · permalink
In article <34B...@slip.net>, Randy Gardner <ran...@slip.net>
wrote:
> 
> Veronica Karlsson wrote:
> > This is news:alt.ascii-art, not news:comp.infosystems.www.authoring.html
> 
> You got that right!!!!    :-)
> 
> >"KGV" is short for "A Kinder, Gentler
> > HTML Validator", which can be found here:
> > http://ugweb.cs.ualberta.ca/~gerald/validate/
> >
[snip]
> Well.....  People can use it to check thier HTML ASCII......  :-)
> 
> Personally, I don't like AKGHV, it's to nice....  I use Weblint in
> pedantic mode to make _sure_ all mine pass.............
> 
> But, it *is* off, topic, so:
> 
>  _______________________
> |                       |
> |                       |
> |                       |
> |                       |
> |        _______        |
> |       || OFF ||       |
> |       ||     ||       |
> |       |/""""/||       |
> |       /    / ||       |
> |      /____/ /"'       |
> |      |____|/          |
> |                       |
> |                       |
> | "|" |"| |") "|" |"    |
> |  |  |_| |"  _|_ |_  RG|
>  """""""""""""""""""""""
> 
> Much better!  :-)
> 
> --
> --ran...@slip.net  (Randy Gardner)
> --http://www.slip.net/~randyg/index.htm  - *New*  Download a maze
>   program that lets you actually walk *inside* the maze!!
>   And, see my HTML!!!!    :-)
.
        ___  ???/\
      _/   |===%^,  But where are the oars?
     |_____|    \/>
       ---  ==     >
     [_____]     __>,^
ejm97 |   |     //| |

While that IS ascii-art, Randy, and a very nice on/off switch, it is
still off topic. Here is some rowing ascii-art:

ejm98        o    o    o    o
           /\/) /\/) /\/) /\/)   
    ______/__/_/__/_/__/_/__/______
-~-~ `---/----/----/----/-------'  -~-~
 -~-~-~-~  -~-~  -~-~-~-~

        c <
ejm98  /\/     o    o    o    o
      /_    /\/) /\/) /\/) /\/)   
    _[]/___/__/_/__/_/__/_/__/______
-~-~ `---/----/----/----/-------'  -~-~
 -~-~-~-~  -~-~  -~-~-~-~


ejm98   c <    o    o    o    o
       /\/   /\/) /\/) /\/) /\/)   
    __/_____/__/_/__/_/__/_/__/______
-~-~ `-----/----/----/----/-------'  -~-~
 -~-~-~-~  -~-~  -~-~-~-~


NOTE: If you hit the reply button, add an "e" to the "freent";
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Veronica Karlsson <dre...@on.spammer> ASCII art 14 Jan 1998 00:00 · permalink
Randy Gardner wrote:
> 
> Veronica Karlsson wrote:
> > This is news:alt.ascii-art, not news:comp.infosystems.www.authoring.html
> 
> You got that right!!!!    :-)
> 

:D:D:D

[that other group is _very_ "flammable"...]

[ 8< ]
> Personally, I don't like AKGHV, it's to nice....  I use Weblint in
> pedantic mode to make _sure_ all mine pass.............
> 

:-/  (I _should_... but....)

> But, it *is* off, topic, so:
> 
>  _______________________
> |                       |
> |                       |
> |                       |
> |                       |
> |        _______        |
> |       || OFF ||       |
> |       ||     ||       |
> |       |/""""/||       |
> |       /    / ||       |
> |      /____/ /"'       |
> |      |____|/          |
> |                       |
> |                       |
> | "|" |"| |") "|" |"    |
> |  |  |_| |"  _|_ |_  RG|
>  """""""""""""""""""""""
> 
> Much better!  :-)
> 

Very nice  :)

but I have something against those "'s


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|                       |
|                       |
|                       |
|                       |
|        _______        |
|       || OFF ||       |
|       ||_____||       |
|       |/    /||       |
|       /    / ||       |
|      /____/ /-'       |
|      |____|/          |
|                       |
| ___  _   _  ___  _    |
|  |  | | |_)  |  |     |
|  |  |_| |   _|_ |_  RG|
`-----------------------'


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 _\.'_'      _.-'   \ V / -_) '_/ _ \ ' \| / _/ _` |  `-._      `_`./_
( \`. )    //\`      \_/\___|_| \___/_||_|_\__\__,_|    '/\\    ( .'/ )
 \_`-'`---'\\__,                                       ,__//`---'`-'_/
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   ` _____________________ r93...@fz.yhgu.fr ____________________ '
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In article <34B...@on.spammer>,
Veronica Karlsson  <dre...@on.spammer> wrote:
>Spunk1111 wrote:
>> 
>> I received email from Jackie--
>> She wasn't extremely happy about me sharing her
>> URL with the newsgroup.  Her collection has personal
>> significance to her and she has posted copyright
>> notices on her page.   Her pictures are lovely to
>> look at-- but she doesn't want people to use them
>> in their signatures...   Ooops, sorry to all that I may
>> have mislead.
>
>So what are they doing on the net then? If you don't want things to be
>seen don't put them out in public!
>

First, my apologies to Veronica for more input than what her short 
message demands, but I rarely visit this newsgroup and have never 
posted in this newsgroup and wanted to address other issues beyond her 
statement...
 
I didn't have a problem with sharing the URL with the newsgroup and 
nowhere did I say I didn't want my ascii art seen.  Nor does Joan
say that I said this.  My concern was with announcing them as a 
possible source for others to use in their signatures.  The graphics 
I create are from personal experiences and about the topic for which 
I have major interests... marine conservation and sea kayaking issues.  
I have not promoted my page to various search engines as an ascii art 
page.  It is one part of an entire site that is devoted to sea kayaking
and the preservation of our fragile marine environment.  I use my ascii 
creations as a magnet to more important issues (hopefully) and for the
community in which I spend most of my time.  I have seen my ascii 
graphics passed off by others as their own without due credit and in 
environments that are counter to the original purpose for which they
were created by me.  For this reason, I do not and never have 
promoted them anywhere other than in the marine and sea kayaking
communities where they are well known.  As the creator, it is my right 
to manage their use (as indicated by copyright law).  As well, it is
your right to manage your creations in any manner as you see fit.  That 
is *your* right and backed by copyright law.

I have been creating ascii graphics for about five years.  Someone
pointed me to the rec.ascii-arts group long ago.  I do not normally
read ascii-art groups as I do not wish to be influenced by what I see 
here, thereby avoiding possible creative mental block.  All my images 
are original and no part of them has been borrowed from another source.  
I am here now because my attention was brought to this thread.  Please 
don't misunderstand me.  I think this is an excellent group but my ascii
art is created with another purpose in mind.  I also think that the
FAQ to this group should be more descriptive with regard to copyright
law.  Most ISP's (Internet Service Providers) now specify in their TOAs 
(Terms of Agreement) that copyright violations won't be tolerated.  One 
reason this has come about is because of the number of business that have 
been shut down due to copyright violations (pirating).  It is a serious 
matter that should be discussed more in-depth in your FAQ so that 
readers may be adequately informed and educated.

I was also sent the following quote from another reader, posted by 
someone with the username "Sex Cow" but could not find the original post 
in any newsgroup to make appropriate response.  I think this is the 
proper forum, however:

> Subject: Re: CLAMS
> From: roo...@localhost.anti-spam.com (Sex Cow)
> Date: Wed, Jan 14, 1998 20:40 EST
> Message-id: <roo...@snews.zippo.com>
> 
> ASCII art is born, not created.  You can't OWN ascii art!  Once you give
> birth to it you have to be willing to set it free...
> 
> In article <4rb...@xemu.demon.co.uk>, Dave Bird---St Hippo of
> Augustine <Dev...@xemu.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> > The clams are by me Dave@XEMU, at the bottom of the 
> > "penguins" page, including some more cartoons not in 
> > the original posting.  The dancing devils at the end
> > of it are by B'ger.
>
> -- 
> http://sexcow.home.ml.org

Folks should check out the URL for sexcow and note that he/she, besides
copying other folks work onto his/her site without credit to the original
creator, has included images of his/her own to which he/she has added
copyright notice.  Interesting....
 
It is interesting to me that while the public would not expect an engineer 
to give up a design without compensation on a new and faster wheelchair or
automatic cup warmer, or a biologist to give up without compensation a 
discovery for a deadly virus or simple skin rash, or a software engineer 
to give up code without compensation, there are many who think that an 
artists creation belongs to the world at large without compensation and 
that recognition of the creator is insignificant.  Baloney.  Ascii artists 
ask the least compensation for the hard work that they create and that is 
simply in the form of recognition as they never expect, realistically, to 
receive one dime.  Much of it is placed here for the enjoyment of the 
public and the satisfaction to the artist that you appreciate their hard
work.  If there is no recognition, for many there is no point.  We are,
afterall, only human as the next guy.  Why bother with the hard work when 
you find it being passed off by someone else as their own?  Recognition is
not too much to ask.  There are ascii artists that don't mind if the public 
reproduces their work without due credit, but that is their choice and 
they are entitled to make that choice.  Users, however, should never 
assume that all ascii graphics on the net are open game.  Omitting credit
without permission could lead to a much higher price.

Regards,

Jackie (artist in multiple 2D and 3D mediums) 

p.s.  Thanks to the individual that pointed out I had not properly tagged
all my "<" and ">"   I think I have corrected all of them, now.  

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