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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 28 Mar 1999.
Re: Work in progress: ASCII art FAQ 3.0.-1

Re: Work in progress: ASCII art FAQ 3.0.-1

On Sun, 28 Mar 1999 04:46:34 +1200, Matthew Thomas (mpt...@spamfree.land) wrote:
: The one exception is Martin's suggestion of CSS for prettying up the
: HTML version. Martin, I wouldn't touch CSS with a bargepole until at
: least 50 percent of Web surfers are using Netscape/Mozilla 5.0, which is
: the only browser which can handle CSS properly!

Huh? I know that very few browsers get all the CSS features right, but
that's never stopped me from using the simpler ones that do work. (Nor the
others - the whole idea of CSS is that the documents should be readable
without it, the style sheets just make them prettier.)

: cost for you.) Anyone else who wants to put up a mirror should let me
: know what its address is going to be in the same way.

Well, I'm willing to set up a mirror, say, at
 http://www.sci.fi/~iltzu/ascii/faq.html 

I also came up with an idea of serving the FAQ by email - I have a
suitable autoresponder set up, except (Martin, I suppose you're reading
this) that my ISP has apparently somehow screwed up formail since the
last time I used it. I'm mailing them about it, let's see if it'll work
soon.

-- 
Ilmari Karonen (ilt...@sci.fi) | Was at a bookstore today, [snip] and noticed
  http://www.sci.fi/~iltzu/   | "Microsoft Internet Explorer 4 for Dummies"
Will fix broken HTML for food | . . . and thought "Yes".  -- Jeff Vinocur

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Subject: Re: Work in progress: ASCII art FAQ 3.0.-1
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