Re: BORROWING DRAWINGS
From Neil Franklin <nei...@franklin.ch.remove>
· alt.ascii-art
· 6 Oct 1999 00:00 · View full thread
Im2...@webtv.net (Okie~NO SPAM/JUNK) writes: > > From: Im2...@webtv.net (Okie~NO SPAM/JUNK) That will not work. If you want to stop the spambots from grabbing your address you need to change the actual address. Something like: From: Im2...@webtv.net.nospam (Okie) > HELLO ..I AM NEW ...AND ON WEBTV... Please no ALL CAPS. This is interpreted as shouting on the Net. You would not shout everything in an discussion anywhere else, would you? WebTVs are capable of lower case (all other WebTV users I have met do it). All caps would be acceptabe if someone posted from an TTY (1950s/60s computer terminal), but not from an 1990s device. > I DONT HAVE THE ADVANTAGE OF SETTING FONTS...I HAVE TO WORK WITH WHAT > THE WEBTV GIVES ME...WHICH IS NOT UNIFORM.... Then you have no chance to do Ascii Art. This absolutely requires to use fixed width fonts. Without that the effect simply fails. > BUT AM INTERESTED TO SEE IF YOU CAN SEE THIS AS A DRAWING... No. Just an pile of crap comes out at my end. See below. > ANY CONSIDERATION WOULD BE GREATLY APPRECIATED..okie/pat I will try it. > <HTML> > <body bgcolor=GHOSTWHITE > text=navyBLUE link=salmon vlink=white alink=limegreen> > <HR> > <font color=BLACK Your WebTV is adjusted to send HTML. That will definitely fail any attempt at Ascii Art. So switch it from HTML to Ascii, for one. How to do this I do not know, I have never seen an WebTV. You may try asking someone else with an WebTV, who has successfully done so, such as any of these alt.ascii-art posters who are on WebTVs: From: Fet...@webtv.net (^wes^) From: GoJ...@webtv.net From: fre...@webtv.net Here is what your picture looks like: > <br>              &nbs p               &nbs p     _ <FONT > COLOR=brown>.-----.</font> > <br>              &nbs p          |\----/ |  / )  <font And so on. Totally unreadable. BTW: if someone else managed to see any thing, that was due to them using computers which attempt to interpret what comes from the net. My old box here simply dumps everything unchanged onto my screen, which is the way Usenet is supposed to work. So I can be considered an reference on messed up data formats. :-) > Not MAD or YELLING...as caps are easier for me to read !! Well they may be for you, but they are annoying to other people. And given that your text will be read by _many_ others it is inconsiderate to force all caps on them. Particularlly as it will not make their posts (the majority of what you will be reading) appear in caps on your screen. If you need caps because of eye sight problems then you should be using an computer that can automatically convert everything to caps or one with an big screen. Both of these exist (they are used for disabled people). -- Neil Franklin, nei...@franklin.ch.remove http://neil.franklin.ch/
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,277bde970ff1f635 X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public From: Neil Franklin <nei...@franklin.ch.remove> Subject: Re: BORROWING DRAWINGS Date: 1999/10/06 Message-ID: <6ua...@chonsp.franklin.ch>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 533537227 Sender: nei...@chonsp.franklin.ch References: <161...@storefull-145.iap.bryant.webtv.net> X-Trace: 6 Oct 1999 18:09:45 +0100, dua131221.dialup800-stat.ethz.ch Organization: My own Private Self Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art
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