Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2004 11:39:25 -0500
From: "dC :: Contact Desk"
To: ascii@textfiles.com
Subject: Good of History? Stupid and BORING
Mr. Scott:
I was recently forwarded a link to http://ascii.textfiles.com/ and a particular article was brought to my attention.
First and foremost, I would like to apologize for the rather unsettling approach by one of our users under the alias depthCORE in the IRC channel you were speaking in. He is not an official representative and shouldn't have spoken on behalf of our artgroup to public relations in the demanor that he did.
I would also have to ask that you do either of two things. 1.) Delete the article from your site, or preferably 2.) alter the user's alias "depthCORE" to something else, because it gives off the notion that the artgroup as a whole speaks in the way that he spoke, and that is not very good for our image. This is an odd request, I know, and I respect everyone's freedom to write as they please, but given the circumstance that a user used our name directly as a speaker, I need to request such things.
As for your request initially... Despite what other artgroups have done, we will not allow a third party to be hosting duplicates no matter the intention. Also, we do not archive our packs in a zip, rar, etc. because we need the copyright notice to be retained above and below every image upon full view on the website.
Regards,
Brian Smith
depthCORE Administration
// www.depthcore.com
Sketch> Hello!
tuxie> oO
Sketch> Is someone who runs depthcore here?
depthCORE> Hello.
Sketch> Hello!
Sketch> I run a site called artscene.textfiles.com. I work with Rad Man of ACiD and a few other folks and try to collect together as many "art packs" as I can, as well as other art scenes. Is there any way you guys are releasing zipped or rar'd collections of your different packs? I really would like to add your breathtaking work to the collection.
depthCORE> Why would you want them in a Zip file?
depthCORE> When you can browse the whole pack on the website?
depthCORE> No.
depthCORE> Hell fucking no.
depthCORE> I am not the Official speaker for depthCORE. But I know damn well they would turn you down.
depthCORE> So NO.
Sketch> OK.
ndey> Why dont u just link the pack
depthCORE> ^
depthCORE> That is a good fucking Idea.
depthCORE> Don't expect a link back tho.
Sketch> If you look at artscene.textfiles.com, say, at http://artscene.textfiles.com/artpacks/2000 or /2001, you'll see a good number of groups who also ran websites,who also said why not just link, who also said there was a website, and who would want a pack. I or others collected them up, and in some cases my site and mirrors are the only collections downloadable from the web now.
Sketch> I don't do ads, I don't make money, I do it for the good of history.
Sketch> No evil here.
depthCORE> Good of history?
depthCORE> That sound's kind of stupid and BORING.
Sketch> Occasionally a place is so good, I try and contact them and see what the thinking is.
depthCORE> You've got to have absolutely NO FUCKING LIFE to do some dumb shit like this.
depthCORE> Hell, I have NEVER heard of your fucking website.
ndey> You do it so your site gets popular
depthCORE> You can link us on your site. And that is the end of that.
Sketch> Well, I can't argue with these statements, can I?
depthCORE> No. Because I am your god.
ndey> Honesty man, I would rather browse the site then download a damn zip
depthCORE> And what the FUCK kind of file is .ASC and .MOD?
depthCORE> When I download an artpack. I expect .JPG or any other common Q0‚ne formats.
depthCORE> But .ASC? What in the fuck.
Sketch> Well, let's see. .ASC is usually ASCII art or at least ANSI-based. (DOS, or Amiga)
depthCORE> That's kind of stupid.
Sketch> .MOD are music files, first for Amiga, later for PC.
ndey> wtf
depthCORE> If anything, you're wasting your time doing this site thing as HISTORY for groups.