Settings

The page will reload to apply your changes.
Theme

ASCII Art Font

ASCII Art Menu

Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 16 Apr 2001.
Re: Sending ASCII - question

Re: Sending ASCII - question

Tilman Ahr <rio...@gmx.net> schreef in berichtnieuws
m3d...@Rudeboy.rioteer.subdomain.de...
> "bam" <ba...@digital.net> writes:
>
> > 1. Is there any way to assure that when one e-mails using a fixed width
> > font that the recipient will receive in the same manner?
>
> With *real* e-mail: No. If you want to send ASCII-art to Clueless
> Wan^WId^WLu^WUsers using OE or similar "Mailreaders" you might try to
> make it an HTML-mail and put the ASCII-art in <pre>-Tags.
>
> But that would be fighting something bad with something worse...
>
> What I would do, really is tell in the beginning of the Message to view
> it in a fixed-width-font.
>

Another thing you might try is to send the message in HTML and make sure the
pic is in a fixed width font, I don't know if it really works though...

Arjen

Original message headers
X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit
X-Google-Thread: f996b,1a33b523b4a3dfeb
X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public
X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-04-16 03:05:03 PST
Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!news.tele.dk!194.25.134.62!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!skynet.be!newshub1.nl.home.com!news.nl.home.com!news-feed.nld.sonera.net!news-x2.support.nl!News-Service!not-for-mail
From: "Arjen Pilon" <aep...@studenten.net.nospam>
Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art
Subject: Re: Sending ASCII - question
Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2001 11:48:41 +0200
Organization: Knoware
Lines: 24
Message-ID: <987...@news.knoware.nl>
References: <Ih3l6.4912$1g....@news2.aus1.giganews.com> <m3d...@Rudeboy.rioteer.subdomain.de>
NNTP-Posting-Host: 195.114.230.34
X-Priority: 3
X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2615.200
X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200
Cache-Post-Path: news.knoware.nl!unk...@greg.160.conceptsfa.nl
X-Cache: nntpcache 2.4.0b2 (see http://www.nntpcache.org/)
Cache-Post-Path: cache.news.support.nl!unk...@news.knoware.nl
Xref: supernews.google.com alt.ascii-art:5320
About this message. This message was posted publicly to the newsgroup alt.ascii-art in 2001 and is mirrored here unchanged as part of the Historic Archives – only email addresses are masked. The artwork and text belong to their original authors: if you copy a piece, keep the artist's initials or signature intact and credit them where you can. Are you the author? Contact us to get your posts attributed, connected to your artist profile, or removed.

Report this message

Help us keep the archive clean and accurate. Reports are reviewed by a person – nothing is changed automatically.

Help classify this post