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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 21 Oct 2001.
Re: MikeChat: Where is ASCII on IRC?

Re: MikeChat: Where is ASCII on IRC?

hola drsquare, soy una robusteza!
>On Sun, 21 Oct 2001 21:24:58 +0800, in alt.ascii-art,
> (Bateau <Its...@Not-A-Real-Address.com>) wrote:
>>hola drsquare, soy una robusteza!
>>>>Looks like you are the one to ask Mike. Where are they posting ascii
>>>>art (coloured or otherwise) on IRC these days? I went to a channel
>>>>ages ago and had a nice time. Even saw what some of them had done with
>>>>ascii I made. Anyway, I have looked on IRC but not found any this
>>>>time.
>>>>
>>>>Mike or anyone have a list?
>>>
>>>Hmmm...how would an ascii-art channel work? Would you flood your pictures
>>>into the channel?
>>
>>Or DCC txt files to each other or paste them in DCC chats.
>
>Yes, but then again no-one gets to share it.

There are always partylines.

>>>Wouldn't that result in you being killed by the server?
>>
>>Depends on the network. On dalnet it takes a lot for the server to
>>kill you. DCC chats don't go through the server so they'd be safe.
>
>But then it's only 1-on-1.
>
>>>What if two people both start flooding at the same time and you
>>>intermingle?
>>
>>Well you go "CHECK THIS ASCII OUT" and hopefully everyone will shut up
>>until it is done =) I'd imagine the room wouldn't be continuous ascii.
>>It would probably mainly be chat.
>
>Or maybe have a parallel channel for the flooding, and one for the
>discussion. For instance, one could say in the first channel "Everyone look
>at my ascii in #channel2". That would work.

Yep.
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Subject: Re: MikeChat: Where is ASCII on IRC?
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