Re: Work in progress: ASCII art FAQ 3.0.-2

In article <370...@spamfree.land>, Matthew Thomas
<mpt...@spamfree.land> wrote:
> 
> I'm reposting this because (1) many a.a-aers are, ad nauseum, citing
> mistakes and issues from my last draft (3.0.-1) and which I've already
> dealt with, (2) my previous posting of this newer draft (3.0.-2) doesn't
> seem to have propagated to the point where anyone has seen it, and (3)
> by dealing with a lot of the repetitive discussion here hopefully I'll
> reduce the amount of unnecessary FAQ-related discussion in the group so
> the rest of you can get on with actual pictures.
[snip]
> llizard wrote:
> >
> > Things look fine to me so far. I have only one minor point (an html
> > issue). I recently found out that for linking to a newsgroup, one must

[snip of ERRONEOUS example]


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> 
> Oh No One Mustn't! That's not for *groups*, that's for *servers*.
> When you are referring to a group on a specific NNTP server, you use the
> slashes -- for example, news://news.canterbury.ac.nz/alt.ascii-art. But
> if you're referring to a widely propagated group which you can
> reasonably expect to be hosted on any NNTP server, you just put
> news:alt.ascii-art.
>
[snip]
>identified as the original author. 

Okay!! Okay!!! Okay!!!!!

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enough with embarrassment already.  I think I've got the point now. 

No, let me rephrase that:  I  |/ |\| /\ \   /
                              |\ | | \/  \^/   I've got the point now.



Matthew, you need never repost that section again.

I promise I will never ever ever EVER suggest to ANYONE that a news link
should be anything other than <A
HREF="news:alt.ascii-art">alt.ascii-art</a>

Really, I promise!  NEVER!!


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