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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 14 Jun 1998.
Re: Binary Postings on AAA

Re: Binary Postings on AAA

>      I must be a genuois ;), because I was able to figure out to rename Colin's
> binary GIF to ASC to view it. This is why:
> 
>      This AOL newsreader must not allow text to be viewed in the same message
> that the binary is posted in. If Colin said what to do in the binary posting, I
> missed it completely. This happened to me with Sprout (making me sound like an
> imbicile), and again with the Malenude.gif.
>      Could I ask that if people are going to post a binary that they follow it
> up with a comment, or preface it with one? You know, like [0/1] [1/1] the way
> it's posted in binary ngs? I don't wanna be a pain, but I'm not getting some of
> the whole posts here. Am I the only one with this problem?

Wow! Allowing binary postings in aaa as a matter of policy! And there had been
wars on html postings!  ;-))

Kidding aside, sooner or later, all postings will look like graphical
webpages, first using html, then using gif, jpeg, etc.

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Subject: Re: Binary Postings on AAA
Date: 1998/06/14
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