Re: Garden Gnom

On Mon, 05 Oct 1998 03:43:28 GMT, Pete Casso <pet...@sympatico.ca> wrote:

>Colin Douthwaite wrote:
>> That picture was actually mine of Mr McHenry from my Magic Roundabout
>> Collection. Your hero, Mr. Casso simply attached a false credit on that
>> picture...allegedly to teach me some sort of lesson about copyright.
>
>Look, look, look, the lesson was learned! Colinstein is not that indifferent
>to his own intellectual property!

Bzzzt. Wrong again Mr. Casso. 

Look, look, look again at my posting...I was actually pointing out the
ongoing gormlessness of your little friend, Sarah Day, who has: 

- repeatedly posted, HTML here with your encouragement

- stripped off names and initials from other folks' pictures which you      
  yourself have done recently and advised all other people here to do the   
  same.

- constantly posted pointless one-liners presumably to prove that she     
  can post messages to Usenet.

- made repeated lame excuses blaming the faults in her messages on her  
  computer or in her not understanding how to use it properly.

- made no apparent attempt to get help from her parents/guardians on how
  to use the computer ( said to be her father's old machine ) properly
  or to carry out all her test postings in the newsgroup "alt.test".

Now, I'm sorry, but I for one, do not appreciate that sort of ongoing
performance when the person involved has been repeatedly warned about such
activities and continues them culminating in her latest contribution which
is to support your own latest undesirable activity...munging name credits
on a whole list of pictures by different artists...the fact that this
one was my Mr McHenry is incidental...that was the picture she happened to
chose to comment on...it could have been anybody's picture.

I have little goodwill for people who want to disrupt this newsgroup,
alt.ascii-art, and for people who repeatedly try to do so in many
questionable ways. So...you can expect plenty of flak and flames from me
whilst those undesirable activities continue.

>> What exactly are you trying to do here in this newsgroup?  Draw
>
>She has every right to be here, and (to my surprise and delight) >Shanakastein also welcomed her here.

Correct. Everyone has a right to be here. This is an unmoderated Usenet
newsgroup.

But people do not have the right to continue to try to disrupt a newsgroup
by undesirable activities against that newsgroup in ways that tend to make
it unuseable without resorting to killfiles or other measures which should
not normally be necessary.

Although you will choose not to believe me...I will repeat that what you
have done to _my own personal pictures_ matters little to me. What does
matter is your own deliberate munging of credits/names on all the pictures
you selected and posted.

So. Look, look, look...Your friend and ally, Sarah Day, was condoning that
behaviour of yours and I found, and find, that totally unacceptable.

Perpetually,

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