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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 14 Dec 1999.
Re: I need someone who can make an Ascii image for me.

Re: I need someone who can make an Ascii image for me.

.----- On Sat, 11 Dec 1999 14:33:40 GMT, llizard posted:
|
|The late Colin Douthwaite (who was a frequent poster to aaa) would have
|been having apoplectic fits about your test. He regularly posted an
|article stating that one should ONLY use characters 32-126 in the
|newsgroups.
|
|...excerpt from WARNING: Control Codes **2nd REVISION**
|:
|: Date: 1999/02/22
|: Author: Colin Douthwaite <cfb...@southern.co.nz>
|:
|[snip]
|: Control Codes:
|: -------------
|:
|: PLEASE do *NOT* post Colour, Color, Control Codes, HTML or Animation
|: Codes to ASCII-ART newsgroups - or indeed ANY Internet newsgroup.
|:
|: It can cause an awful lot of trouble on Net systems worldwide.
|:
|: If you do wish to post Raw Code then UUENCODE it first !
|:
|: Colour & Color Control Codes in subject titles and headers should be
|: avoided entirely.
|:
|[snip]
|:
|: ====================================================================
|: This message is being reposted frequently because many newcomers
|: to the Net do not seem to know the problems caused by Control Codes
|: used for Color, HTML, Animations etc.
|: ====================================================================
|:
|:
|:       * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
|:       *                                                   *
|:       *        HTML, Mime, Java etc are not ASCII.        *
|:       *                                 ^^^               *
|:       * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
|:
|:...........excerpt from dejanews.......
|
'---------------------------------

For those who are interested, this document is in full in the 'Older
Documents' section of the ASCIIArt Documents Archive:
http://website.lineone.net/~martin.atkins/ada/

Exact URL:
http://website.lineone.net/~martin.atkins/ada/aaacontcodes.txt

(International Mirrors Available)

Kind Regards,
-Martin
|\/| _..__|_o._   /\_|_| o._  _   mart.atkins@--
|  |(_||  |_|| | /--\|_|<|| |_>            --bigfoot.com

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Subject: Re: I need someone who can make an Ascii image for me.
Date: 1999/12/14
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