Cheryl > wrote:

> On Sun 20 Dec 2009 05:53:52p, Victor Sack wrote:
>
> > Cheryl > wrote:
> >
> >> X-Face:
> >> $dO4505L-bM3\Iz"(V=y.bL/75{5ys3:B[-aPBQvs*Z%fdBqFhvc85hmZN4j1kwR
> >> zwvY*R4n vQ/#/+kWXH((aXWh\%mvG1V()Z0k:NwZAIu\S0d1%,nv`^
> >
> > I guess I have to be flattered that you decided to steal my cat,
> > of all the cats out there. I have to say that my Diabolical
> > Cat(TM) was created by myself for my own use only.
> >
> > There has always been an unwritten law that one uses one's own
> > x-faces, not anything created by someone else. I have always
> > used my own, with the sole exception of the
> > (anonymously-created) American flag displayed on extraordinary
> > occasions. One also does not steal anything from Ace's
> > admirable collection of x-faces at
> > <http://www.xs4all.nl/~ace/X-Faces/>. This cat of mine is there,
> > too, properly attributed to my old address.
> >
> > If you are desperate for an x-face of your own and cannot figure
> > out how to create it, e-mail me and I might just spare you one
> > of my other cats, never before publicly used or otherwise
> > displayed.
>
> Excuse me?!?!?

No, I won't.

> I have been using this Xface for years. I coded it
> from a picture myself. Maybe you stole mine?

What a bold-faced lie! I've been using this x-face for more the twelve
years. I can easily prove it, too. Here is my first post with this
x-face:

<http://groups.google.com/group/comp.sys.mac.comm/msg/d58c6b65238dbac6?dmode=source>

And here is my first post on rfc with this x-face:

<http://groups.google.com/group/rec.food.cooking/msg/dda25a5d59b8c10e?dmode=source>

Where are yours? Go ahead and post a link to an earlier post of yours
using this x-face. You wouldn't even know which newsreaders were capable
of displaying x-faces in 1997.

Victor