Re: Crab.

In article <199...@ladder02.news.aol.com>,
tim...@aol.com (TimIzBack) writes:
>As an AOL user <koff koff>, and a reader of this newsgroup, I do LEAVE the
>signatures in. It's not only AOL where people may take out the sigs. All
>it takes is one person to remove it, and for people to "steal" that macro
>from them, and the snowball effect comes into play. 

From one ASCII admirer to another--  I understand what you are saying about
when sigs can be removed.  It does take just once and the picture is
reproduced without credits.  I don't really expect people to "hunt down"
the artist before using the picture.  But if you are told who the artist is and
what their sig is, it is common courtesy to put it back on the picture.

The reason I referred to AOL was the following:
What I have found most disturbing on AOL recently has been the
 incidences of the sigs *replaced* by another person-- with that person 
being one on AOL who has converted the ASCII picture to AOL's proportional
font and then taken credit for the entire thing.  Since most of the people in
this newsgroup do not have access to AOL (and probably don't want it
even if they could), they don't know that the pics that they have created
are now
being circulated with someone else's name on them.  If you ask these people,
they say that they made it.... until you point out the website where it can be
found.  Now, IMO, that is something to crab about.
-joan
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