Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art Subject: test Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 20:02:14 -0500 Lines: 3 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 NNTP-Posting-Host: anonymous.newsfeeds.com Message-ID: <38ac9810_4@anonymous.newsfeeds.com> X-Comments: This message did not originate from the Sender address. It was posted through Newsfeeds.com's exclusive, publically accessable anonymous Usenet Server. X-Comments2: IMPORTANT: Under NO circumstances will postings containing illegal or copyrighted material through this service be tolerated!! X-Report: Please report illegal or inappropriate use to X-Abuse-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers, INCLUDING the body X-Abuse-Info2: ALL Spam complaints are acted upon within 24 hours! From: Anonymous Organization: Newsfeeds.com http://www.newsfeeds.com 73,000+ UNCENSORED Newsgroups. Path: chonsp.franklin.ch!pfaff.ethz.ch!news-zh.switch.ch!news-ge.switch.ch!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.berkeley.edu!feed3.newsfeeds.com!newsfeeds.com!anonymous.newsfeeds.com!newsfeeds.com Xref: chonsp.franklin.ch alt.ascii-art:8663 Hello. --------== Posted Anonymously via Newsfeeds.Com ==------- Featuring the worlds only Anonymous Usenet Server -----------== http://www.newsfeeds.com ==---------- ###### From: zneg.ngxvaf@ovtsbbg.pbz (Martin Atkins) Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art Subject: Re: test Reply-To: zneg.ngxvaf@ovtsbbg.pbz Message-ID: <38b2e497.17946771@news.vossnet.net> References: <38ac9810_4@anonymous.newsfeeds.com> X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.11/32.235 X-NNTP-Posting-Host: pool-153.vossnet.co.uk Lines: 185 Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2000 20:06:50 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 195.188.10.3 X-Complaints-To: abuse@cableinet.net X-Trace: news3.cableinet.net 951250016 195.188.10.3 (Tue, 22 Feb 2000 20:06:56 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2000 20:06:56 GMT Organization: Cable Internet (post doesn't reflect views of Cable Internet) Path: chonsp.franklin.ch!pfaff.ethz.ch!news-zh.switch.ch!newsfeed-zh.ip-plus.net!news.ip-plus.net!news.datacomm.ch!newscore.gigabell.net!news0.de.colt.net!colt.net!newspeer.clara.net!news.clara.net!news-hub.cableinet.net!news3.cableinet.net!not-for-mail Xref: chonsp.franklin.ch alt.ascii-art:8747 .----- On Thu, 17 Feb 2000 20:02:14 -0500, Anonymous posted: |Hello. | | --------== Posted Anonymously via Newsfeeds.Com ==------- | Featuring the worlds only Anonymous Usenet Server | -----------== http://www.newsfeeds.com ==---------- '----------------------- Hmm I can see this is going to be fun. The havoc caused by help.com pales in comparison. ObPoemSCI: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Ode to Pyramid Schemes and Other Assorted Internet Phenomena by Matthew Thomas \~/ A long, long time ago, ,"\ I can still remember how those schemes used to make me / |_`. smile ... / (__ \ And I knew that if I ruled the world, J __) ) Then I would send those jerks to hell `.___|_,' And maybe I'd be happy, for a while ... _ _,-'/\ But bulk e-mailers made me shiver _,-',='/ \ Every second, they'd deliver \`---+'`-._\ Junk news on my doorstep, \ / _,-' I couldn't take one more step ... \,-' ______ (_=o___) Until now, I've never tried | | To filter out that spam deep-fried | Diet | But something touched me deep inside | SPAM | The day, my server, died. (______) ,--. `_' So ... (_.__) -(_)- Bye bye scam, you're just pie in the sky , . Drove the Albanians crazy, and sucked them all dry _.-*-._ Them good old admins let this spam slip by \_______/.-. Singing, `This'll be the day that I die; (__._._) This'll be the day that I die'. /L. Do you have faith in MLM, /.L:`. And do you think Good Times will cause mayhem, /. J:::`. Because your e-mail tells you so? /. . L::::> Do you believe in pyramids /. . .J::,' Free Money, and all that stuff that kids /_______L' Circulate to make the Internet real slow? +-------------+ |# ad me | Well I know the Net is full of crime |`-# Re:ad me | 'Cause I get this spam stuff all the time |# EASY MONEY | But I can't just run away |# XXX PICS!! | Because I haven't checked Usenet yet today ... +-------------+ ,-. |66A I am a lonely teenage computer nerd /`'M\ With a dual boot of Linux and Hurd, (| `M\ But I foresaw the Reich of Gates the Third _>\ |M) The day, my server, died. '-_)=(_,' ,--. `_' I started singing: (_.__) -(_)- Bye bye scam, you're just pie in the sky , . Drove the Albanians crazy, and sucked them all dry _.-*-._ Them good old admins let this spam slip by \_______/.-. Singing, `This'll be the day that I die; (__._._) This'll be the day that I die'. X Now for nigh on ten years we've been on our own ____/ \__o____ While the Web grows fat on it's commercial throne, /`-'\ T But that's not how it used to be; . / ) \ o While the gopher sang for academic jocks /`--/--'\ /\ In Veronica's closet and Archie's box, :`-./A_,-'/> U Tim invented the H T tepee ... And while Berners-Lee was looking down ,===-. Andreesen stole his thorny crown || \\ Enquire Within was adjourned || \ _ And a 404 was returned `==> [_] And while Oracular Priests gave out their marks / The Kibologists practised in the park R e l o a d And I sang a ditty in the dark The day, my server, died. ,--. `_' I was singing: (_.__) -(_)- Bye bye scam, you're just pie in the sky , . Drove the Albanians crazy, and sucked them all dry _.-*-._ Them good old admins let this spam slip by \_______/.-. Singing, `This'll be the day that I die; (__._._) This'll be the day that I die'. _ __ _ With custom tags, and a file mime // /-.\ \\ The browsers began to waste our time // // \\ Eight megabytes high and growing fast; << // >> And as Id Est and the Lizard fought in the grass, \\ `' // The open-sourcers caught the pass \\ [] // With the Mosaic all in pieces, in the dust. Now the smell of Java was sweet perfume ,-. But the Borg was playing a fighting tune (_|L ) We all got ready to dance _`& `_ Oh, but we never got the chance ... \`"'|)) 'Cause the programmers tried to take the field _ L_J_ but the .java classes refused to yield ``-===-' ' Do you remember what Sun's tests revealed The day, the server, died. ,--. `_' We had been singing: (_.__) -(_)- Bye bye OS, you're just pie in the sky , . We don't need you any more, so we'll kiss you goodbye _.-*-._ But the good old Borg were drinking decaf, and why? \_______/.-. 'Cause that would be the day that they die (__._._) That would be the day that they die. 1 (?) And meanwhile, ASCII artists in our places 2 ) A generation lost in tabs and spaces 3 .._o Trying to make our pics look right; 4 ..://\/ So keep your sigs to four lines or three 5 ..:_/\ And make sure that you use PGP 6 ..:/ 'Cause crypto is freedom's only friend ... And as I watched Sanford Wallace on the stage |"`--..,--'"| My hands were clenched in fists of rage |[M] -|NEWS:| No angel born in hell |[M] -|Spam | Could break that Satan's spell; |`"--.|legal| And as the flames came flooding in |`"--.|,--'"| alt.silly.newsgroups.clogged.up.tin "`--.|,--'" I saw the Borg wear an evil grin The day, my server, died. ,--. `_' I was singing: (_.__) -(_)- Bye bye scam, you're just pie in the sky , . Drove the Albanians crazy, and sucked them all dry _.-*-._ Them good old admins let this spam slip by \_______/.-. Singing, `This'll be the day that I die; (__._._) This'll be the day that I die'. ,---. I met a girl, Emily Postnews /'_'_`\ And I asked for her to cure my blues, // ~<~`)\ But she just smiled and cancelled me; (( `-'/_ I went down to the cybercafe ) (-<\ Where I'd heard you didn't have to pay ,-' `.\\ But the man there said that the Net was down today ... Because the y2k had rolled around \ \ ,-./_ . And the Net had crashed into the ground , , \ ) And not a byte was spoken ( BOOM! ) ) The software all was broken ... ( / And the three men I admire most, ` / `-' \ ' Stallman, Linus, and the Oracular Ghost, / \ They took a Chevy to the coast, The day, our servers, died. ,--. `_' And they were singing: (_.__) -(_)- Bye bye spam, you're just pie in the sky , . The Net is all gone, but let's not just cry _.-*-._ We can start again one day, if only we try \_______/.-. And I said, `That'll be the day that I die; (__._._) That'll be the day that I die'. ,--. `_' We're all singing: (_.__) -(_)- Bye bye spam, you're just pie in the sky , . The Net is all gone, but let's not just cry _.-*-._ We can start again one day, if only we try \_______/.-. Even if that is the day that we die; (__._._) Even if that is the day ... that we die'. Copyright (C) 1998 Matthew Thomas (with apologies to Don McLean). This work may be freely copied, forwarded, or otherwise reproduced, as long as this copyright message is included. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Kind Regards, -Martin The asciis in this message are not by me, they are the artists credited in the asciis. Please do not remove credits from asciiart. Thanks. |\/| _..__|_o._ /\_|_| o._ _ mart.atkins@-- | |(_|| |_|| | /--\|_|<|| |_> --bigfoot.com ###### From: Ben Norwood Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art Subject: Re: test Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2000 22:53:25 +0000 Organization: Virtually non-existant - OK? Lines: 35 Message-ID: References: <38ac9810_4@anonymous.newsfeeds.com> <38b2e497.17946771@news.vossnet.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: xena.dcs.aber.ac.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: dyfi.aber.ac.uk 951260008 9849 193.60.15.5 (22 Feb 2000 22:53:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@aber.ac.uk NNTP-Posting-Date: 22 Feb 2000 22:53:28 GMT X-Sender: bdn95@xena In-Reply-To: <38b2e497.17946771@news.vossnet.net> X-No-Archive: Yes Path: chonsp.franklin.ch!pfaff.ethz.ch!news-zh.switch.ch!newsfeed-zh.ip-plus.net!news.ip-plus.net!News.Amsterdam.UnisourceCS!newspeer.te.net!news.indigo.ie!diablo.theplanet.net!newspeer.clara.net!news.clara.net!news5-gui.server.ntli.net!ntli.net!server4.netnews.ja.net!aber!xena!bdn95 Xref: chonsp.franklin.ch alt.ascii-art:8750 On Today, Martin Atkins wrote: : Ode to Pyramid Schemes and Other Assorted Internet Phenomena : by Matthew Thomas Matthew Thomas must certainly have had fun composing those lyrics... Hmmm, anyone still got a copy of "The Day That EFnet Died"? It was another variation-on-a-theme of American Pie, surprisingly enough based around IRC...I tried finding it with AltaVista/Google/Metacrawler/Deja, but turned up blanks each time (well, the only 'hit' is now a 404) :( Then "Wierd Al" has also penned a new set of lyrics, this time in tribute to Star Wars: Phantom Menace (available at sagabegins.com). ObAscii: _ |-| | | | | | | | | | | V Mini-pen/pencil -- Ben Norwood - the (ex-)Mad Biologist From Hell http://www.bigfoot.com/~bdn95/ bdn95 _@/" bigfoot.com ###### From: mikechat@bluedwarf.net (MJP) Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art Subject: Re: test Date: 22 Feb 2000 21:58:15 EST Organization: Concentric Internet Services Lines: 57 Message-ID: <38b21805.938868@news.concentric.net> References: <38ac9810_4@anonymous.newsfeeds.com> <38b2e497.17946771@news.vossnet.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: 209.220.139.117 X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.21/32.243 Path: chonsp.franklin.ch!pfaff.ethz.ch!news-zh.switch.ch!newsfeed-zh.ip-plus.net!news.ip-plus.net!News.Amsterdam.UnisourceCS!skynet.be!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeed.berkeley.edu!newsfeed.concentric.net!global-news-master Xref: chonsp.franklin.ch alt.ascii-art:8752 On Tue, 22 Feb 2000 20:06:50 GMT, zneg.ngxvaf@ovtsbbg.pbz (Martin Atkins) wrote: >..----- On Thu, 17 Feb 2000 20:02:14 -0500, Anonymous posted: >|Hello. >| >| --------== Posted Anonymously via Newsfeeds.Com ==------- >| Featuring the worlds only Anonymous Usenet Server >| -----------== http://www.newsfeeds.com ==---------- >'----------------------- > >Hmm I can see this is going to be fun. The havoc caused by help.com pales in >comparison. > >ObPoemSCI: > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Ode to Pyramid Schemes and Other Assorted Internet Phenomena > by Matthew Thomas > Snip of excellent work! >Copyright (C) 1998 Matthew Thomas (with apologies to Don McLean). >This work may be freely copied, forwarded, or otherwise reproduced, >as long as this copyright message is included. >--------------------------------------------------------------------- > >Kind Regards, >-Martin >The asciis in this message are not by me, they are the artists credited in >the asciis. Please do not remove credits from asciiart. > Thanks. >|\/| _..__|_o._ /\_|_| o._ _ mart.atkins@-- >| |(_|| |_|| | /--\|_|<|| |_> --bigfoot.com _________________________________________________________ So, when does the CD come out? Is there a web site where I can download the recording?? pseudo-reviewer comment: "I laughed, I cried, I ordered the commemorative coffee mug. Two opposable digits up!" -- -- **************************** __.-~---_ mikechat __)/ > O ( @ ) / /|\ )" bluedwarf.net ) | ^ ^ ^| )_\ ^ ^ ( )\ ^ ^ \ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~ ~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~ ~~~MJP~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~ ###### From: Ilmari Karonen Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art Subject: Re: test Date: 23 Feb 2000 10:58:15 GMT Organization: (dis)Order of the Holy Spoon (or whatever) Lines: 15 Message-ID: <890eg7$ssj$1@tron.sci.fi> References: <38ac9810_4@anonymous.newsfeeds.com> <38b2e497.17946771@news.vossnet.net> Reply-To: Ilmari Karonen NNTP-Posting-Host: simpukka.saunalahti.fi X-Trace: tron.sci.fi 951303495 29587 195.74.0.20 (23 Feb 2000 10:58:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@saunalahti.fi NNTP-Posting-Date: 23 Feb 2000 10:58:15 GMT User-Agent: postit.pl 0.04 X-No-Archive: Yes Path: chonsp.franklin.ch!pfaff.ethz.ch!news-zh.switch.ch!newsfeed-zh.ip-plus.net!news.ip-plus.net!News.Amsterdam.UnisourceCS!newspeer.te.net!news.indigo.ie!news-out.cwix.com!newsfeed.cwix.com!newsfeed1.swip.net!swipnet!newsfeed1.funet.fi!news.cc.tut.fi!uutiset.saunalahti.fi!not-for-mail Xref: chonsp.franklin.ch alt.ascii-art:8743 In article , Ben Norwood wrote: >On Today, Martin Atkins wrote: >: Ode to Pyramid Schemes and Other Assorted Internet Phenomena >: by Matthew Thomas > >Hmmm, anyone still got a copy of "The Day That EFnet Died"? Nope, but a Deja search for "the day the routers died" might turn up something interesting.. ;) -- . _, .. j u s t. h o w l.i n g i n .t h e n.i g h t .. ._, . , )'' . /\_ . ' ,/\ . , ``( , _\__/ |__.'\._______,--;_'_`-.___,.______,/_,_`.__,-.__'__,/`-._,_| \____ ,_f_)\. Ilmari Karonen iltzu@sci.fi http://www.sci.fi/~iltzu/ /(_|_,. ###### From: Matthew Thomas Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art Subject: Re: test Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2000 15:03:39 +1300 Organization: University of Canterbury (opinions expressed are my own) Lines: 32 Message-ID: <38B4917A.CDE43F0E@student.canterbury.ac.nz> References: <38ac9810_4@anonymous.newsfeeds.com> <38b2e497.17946771@news.vossnet.net> <38b21805.938868@news.concentric.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: 132.181.32.115 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 (Macintosh; I; PPC) X-Accept-Language: en Path: chonsp.franklin.ch!pfaff.ethz.ch!news-zh.switch.ch!newsfeed-zh.ip-plus.net!news.ip-plus.net!News.Amsterdam.UnisourceCS!skynet.be!newsfeed.berkeley.edu!news-stock.gip.net!news.gsl.net!gip.net!news.iprolink.co.nz!canterbury.ac.nz!not-for-mail Xref: chonsp.franklin.ch alt.ascii-art:8800 MJP wrote: >... > > Ode to Pyramid Schemes and Other Assorted Internet Phenomena > > by Matthew Thomas > > Snip of excellent work! Errrr, thankgyer verimudge. >... > So, when does the CD come out? *After* the next version of the FAQ comes out. (Which, IMHO, is more important.) Which, in turn, will be after Mozilla 5.0 comes out. (Which, IMHO, is more important still. But I could be persuaded otherwise.:-) Which, AFAIK, is around April. (Which, of course, is subject to change.) ObASCII: o o, o /M\__ (M\__ /M\__ W LJ W LJ W LJ / \ / \ / \ mt00 taking a bow ttfn -- Matthew `mpt' Thomas, displaying his complete lack of artistic talent ASCII art FAQ: http://cantua.canterbury.ac.nz/~mpt26/art/ascii/faq/ ###### From: Adonien Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art Subject: Re: test Message-ID: References: <38ac9810_4@anonymous.newsfeeds.com> <38b2e497.17946771@news.vossnet.net> Organization: 1010011010 - http://1010011010.cjb.net Reply-To: adonien@1010011010.cjb.net X-Newsreader: MicroPlanet Gravity v2.20 X-1010011010: 1010011010 X-Complaint-To: abuse@1010011010.cjb.net X-Is-Paranoid: yes Lines: 25 Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2000 17:32:17 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 212.43.207.107 X-Complaints-To: abuse@freesurf.fr X-Trace: nnrp3.clara.net 951413537 212.43.207.107 (Thu, 24 Feb 2000 17:32:17 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2000 17:32:17 GMT Path: chonsp.franklin.ch!pfaff.ethz.ch!news-zh.switch.ch!newsfeed-zh.ip-plus.net!news.ip-plus.net!News.Amsterdam.UnisourceCS!newshunter!cosy.sbg.ac.at!news-feed.inet.tele.dk!bofh.vszbr.cz!newsfeed.nacamar.de!newsfeed.icl.net!newspeer.clara.net!news.clara.net!nnrp3.clara.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Xref: chonsp.franklin.ch alt.ascii-art:8799 Ben Norwood (bdn95@aber.ac.uk) wrote : > Hmmm, anyone still got a copy of "The Day That EFnet Died"? > > It was another variation-on-a-theme of American Pie, surprisingly enough > based around IRC...I tried finding it with > AltaVista/Google/Metacrawler/Deja, but turned up blanks each time > (well, the only 'hit' is now a 404) :( Maybe this? http://www.yikes.com/fun/efnet.html Aaaah, what would I do without Copernic Pro? ObASCII : _I'm a little pea... / o -- Adonien | Ultra Discreet Underground Secret Society http://1010011010.n3.net | member #000001 - 000001@uduss.cjb.net adonien@1010011010.cjb.net | http://uduss.n3.net ________________________________________________________________________ -Good people go to Heaven. Others go where they want to.