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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 18 Feb 1998.
Re: The Best way to make ASCII Art.

Re: The Best way to make ASCII Art.

Ronnie Deschenes (dm8...@FreeNet.Carleton.CA) wrote:
>
>I'm a bit of a lurker here, and I don't get what you guys keep flaming
>this guy for!
>
>This guy makes a program to generate ASCII Art, and just HAPPENS to
>include the extended character set in it, that does NOT have to be used,
>and you go off the wall on him.
>
>When I first saw this group, I was impressed at how helpful and receptive
>you were, but after seeing this, well, I'm not so sure.

>One point you all have to realize here, and I speak as a programmer and
>someone who has had his programs downloaded, people are not going to
>download his program EXCLUSIVELY for making pictures to post here. They
>will make them to put on BBSes, FTP sites, Web pages, etc. where extended
>Ascii is acceptable.

>I didn't want to get involved, but you guys are acting very petty here...


Oh come on now...what do you reckon it is going to be like in this 
newsgroup when people DO make what they think are Ascii Art pictures 
and DO post stuff like the example below provided by the program's author ?  

We get enough garbage as it is without shareware programs to make
more garbage.

Most stuff I have seen on BBSs is pure ANSI not Ascii.


Quoth the program author:

> Anyway, here is an example drawn COMPLETELY WITH ASCIIART!  

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                               =D2
                           >=C4>=C4=D7=C4=C4
           =F4                   =BA                      =F4
         =DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=
=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=
=DB=DB=DB=DB
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=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=
=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB
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=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=
=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB
      =DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=
=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=
=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB
     =DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=
=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=
=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB=DB
        =B0=B0=B0=B0=B0=B0=B0=B0=B0=B0=B0=B0=B0=B0=B0=B0=B0=B0=B0=B0=B0=B0=
=B0=B0=B0=B0=B0=B0=B0=B0=B0=B0=B0=B0=B0=B0=B0=B0=B0=B0=B0=B0=B0=B0=B0=B0=
=B0=B0=B0=B0=B0
        =B0=B0=C6=CD=CD=CD=CD=CD=CD=CD=CD=B2=
=CD=CD=CD=CD=CD=CD=CD=CD=B5=B0=B0
        =B0=B0=B0=B0=B0=B0=B0=B0=B0=B0=B0=B2=
=B0=B0=B0=B0=B0=B0=B0=B0=B0=B0=B0
        =B0=B0=B0=B0=F9=F9=F9=F9=B0=B0=B0=B2=
=B0=B0=B0=B0=B0=B0=B0=B0=B0=B0=B0
        =B0=B0=B0=F9 =B3  =F9=B0=B0=B2=B0=B0=
=B0=B0=B0=B0=B0=B0=B0=B0=B0
        =B0=B0=B0=F9 =C0=C4=C4=F9=B0=B0=B2=B0=
=B0=B0=B0=B0=B0=B0=B0=B0=B0=B0
        =B0=B0=B0=B0=F9=F9=F9=F9=B0=B0=B0=B2=
=B0=B0=B0=B0=B0=B0=B0=B0=B0=B0=B0
        =B0=B0=B0=B0=B0=B0=B0=B0=B0=B0=B0=B2=
=B0=B0=B0=B0=B0=B0=B0=B0=B0=B0=B0
        =B0=B0=B0=B0=B0=B0=B0=B0=B0=B0=B0=B2=
=B0=B0=B0=B0=B0=B0=B0=B0=B0=B0=B0
        =B0=B0=C6=CD=CD=CD=CD=CD=CD=CD=CD=B2=
=CD=CD=CD=CD=CD=CD=CD=CD=B5=B0=B0

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Now I ask you...what good is that in this newsgroup ?

Bye,

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From: cfb...@southern.co.nz (Colin Douthwaite)
Subject: Re: The Best way to make ASCII Art.
Date: 1998/02/18
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