Re: oooooh controversy!

N. Thornton writes
>Richard James <thi...@all.will.it> wrote
>
>> > Been reading this a while now, like it. I have lots of goodies to
>> > post, but Am I going to get moaned at if I post ascii art wi colour
>> > codes along side the plain versions?
>> 
>> And we would render this how?
>
>The black and white version would be there for you to see - so it
>would be ascii art, plain to see on every puter. I'd just add a colour
>version underneath for IRC use. I use a lot of small ascii art in IRC.
>Sounds harmless enough to me.... in fact, why don't I give y'all an
>example...
>
>I'm going to light a fire for everyone...
>
>      (  .
>       )   .
>     .(   (
>    (  ). )
>     )_(_(_
>    (______)
>
>colour IRC version:
>
>      (  4.
>       )   .
>     .(   (
>    (  ). )
>     )_(_(_
>1,5(______)
>
>Thats what would get printed :)
>
>Regards, NT

hi ...

some of those characters are not printable!
please just post the ascii versions here
unless you encode the chr(0x03) in some way
as it is a control-code
 ... maybe use a '$' dollar sign?
and denote it as [IRC.ascii] or something?
also give instructions to the user on how
to obtain a Ctrl-3 from the keyboard of
an IRC-terminal ?

this is not a flame ... but now read this ...
and please comment about it


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[13]  What to NOT post to alt.ascii-art? [da roolz]
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[13.1]            ASCII art is a very simple medium.
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      ___ (~ )( ~)   The following List of Items       (~ )( ~) ___
     /   \_\ \/ /      should NOT be posted to          \ \/ /_/   \
    |   D_ ]\ \/         the Usenet groups:-             \/ /[ _G   |
    |   D _]/\ \                                         / /\[_ G   |
     \___/ / /\ \   news:alt.ascii-art                  / /\ \ \___/
     mark (_ )( _)  news:alt.ascii-art.animation       (_ )( _) JavE
            ~  ~    news:alt.ascii-art.endless.blabla    ~  ~

                    news:alt.binaries.pictures.ascii

        NOTE: alt.binaries.pictures.ascii supports posting of ASCII
            software tools or fonts (in ZIP format) and binary images
            of ASCII or other FontSet (in GIF format) and any other
            ASCII art related material, but no Spam, in relation to
            discussions in the alt.ascii-art newsgroups.

                      -= List of Items =-

    *   Binaries, Trojans, Zombies, Virus, Spam.

    *   ANSI,`extended ASCII' or `high ASCII', and non-Western font art.
        Many computer systems have an extended character set of 256 or
        more characters, based on the ANSI, Unicode or BIG5 character
        sets and having the first 128 characters possibly identical to
        ASCII. These characters should not be sent to news:alt.ascii-art
        because many computer system types do not display them properly,
        even those that do, do not display them in a standard way, for
        example, the Windows ANSI character set is different to the
        Macintosh ANSI character set. Capture and send a GIF of it to
        news:alt.binaries.pictures.ascii or put it on a Web page
        instead, and post a reference to it to news:alt.ascii-art.
        Alternatively, post it to news:rec.arts.ascii (see below).

    *   HTML art. HTML, the language used in Web pages, can be used to
        add special effects such as colours, font size, and blinking
        text to ASCII art, and HTML can be read by some Usenet readers.
        However, to many they just appear as a jumble of <TAGS> and are
        totally unrecognizable, so don't post HTML to Usenet. Put it on
        a Web page instead, and post the address to news:alt.ascii-art.
        See http://llizard.crosswinds.net/ascii-art/asciionpage.htm
        for instructions on how to do this.

    *   ASCII art animated using Java or JavaScript.
        This relies, not only on the newsreader being able to display
        HTML, but also being able to run Java or JavaScript.
        Put it on a Web page instead, and post the address to
        news:alt.ascii-art.animation and news:alt.ascii-art

    *   Proportional Font ASCII art screws up on many readers' displays
        Send a GIF of it to news:alt.binaries.pictures.ascii  or
        put it on a Web page instead and post a reference to it to
        news:alt.ascii-art  or  post it to  news:rec.arts.ascii

    Finally, do not use any control codes, non-ASCII characters,
    or word-processor-type formatting in your postings. These are
    particular to your editor or computer system they will almost
    certainly not have the intended effect on the systems the rest
    of us use (they may even crash some Usenet readers).

    ====================================================================
    [13.2]  What can I post to rec.arts.ascii?
    ====================================================================
    The official charter for rec.arts.ascii, as sent in the newsgroup
    control message, is:

      The group news:rec.arts.ascii will be the appropriate group for
      postings to include, but not be limited to, the following:

      o  All forms of ASCII art including, but not limited to:
         -  Standard ASCII art.
         -  Animations.
         -  ANSI color graphics.
      o  Discussion about pieces of art.
      o  Requests for specific pieces of art, and their fulfilment.
      o  Questions and answers covering:
         -  Creating and viewing ASCII art.
         -  Locating FTP sites for ASCII art and related files.
      o  Discussion about artists in the field.

    rec.arts.ascii is a moderated group meaning that all posts are
    reviewed before being sent to the group. That work is done by a
    robo-moderator which filters SPAM and checks the posts have the
    correct format before approving them.  It can also target a
    specific poster's traffic for human moderator approval.

    Subjects must be tagged either:
    [PIC] for pictures
    [REQ] for requests for others to draw pictures
           (people responding to such requests are asked to change
            the tag to [PIC])
    [DIS] for general ascii art related discussion.
    [ADMIN] for the moderator to post important information.

    The robo-mod also checks that the posts are in PLAIN TEXT only,
    that line length is set to LESS than 80 characters UNLESS the
    phrase [long lines] is in the BODY of the post, when the LIMIT
    is then raised to 160 characters.

    Cross-posting is permitted provided that:
      o - it is to no more than three groups
      o - the followup-to header is set to only one group.
    Cross-posting to other moderated groups is NOT permitted.

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