Re: Unattributed Ascii-Art?

On 28 Feb 2002 02:52:15 GMT, mik...@bluedwarf.spam.net (MJP)
wrote:
>On Wed, 27 Feb 2002 19:13:13 GMT, las...@lastfuture.de (Peter
-lastfuture- Marquardt) wrote:
>>On Wed, 27 Feb 2002 18:33:44 GMT, mew...@softhome.net (JamesDad)
>>wrote:
>>>UNK : UNKnown source.
>>>#AU# : Artist unknown. The "#" characters would highlight that it was
>>>     not someone with the initials "AU" who did the artwork.
>>>*U* : again, Unknown source.
>>>#NBM# : Not By Me
>>>UNATTR : UNATTRibuted; artist unknown.
>
> hmm I do like  -=NBM=-  (not by me) or -UNK- though either *could* be a
> sig too.

My thought is that once a generally agreed-upon indicator (perhaps two or
three to cover the possibility you mentioned) was settled on and put in
the FAQ (and maybe the pointer, too?), anyone who was already using the
indicator as a sig would have a chance to speak up. If someone did, then
we'd know and fall back to the other(s). We could even set a date (say,
May 1--I thought about April 1 but since that's April Fool's Day...) to
give someone time to speak up and say "I use that already!" or "I know
someone who uses that one!" After the date chosen, it would BE the
alt.ascii-art indicator for unattributed ascii-art, and it would be up to
the artist to change his/her form of attributing their artwork to avoid
confusion. Four or more letters could minimize that risk, too;

^QAA-A^ = "Query Alt.Ascii-Art" to find the artist.
*RHIUDT* = "Raise Hand If You Did This"
!ANSU! = "Attribution Needed: Speak Up!"
+AUSU+ = "Artist Unknown: Speak Up!"
?DUDT? = "Did U Do This?" 
~IRAAAU~ = "I Respect Ascii-Artists: Artist Unknown"
(FISAU) = "Fill In Space: Artist Unknown"

I think you and I agree at least that putting symbols before and after the
letters could help highlight that the letters are not initials but are an
indicator that the letters relate to the clip being unattributed.

Or the indicator could be all symbols;
[***] = Like a password field; it's unknown what's behind the asterisks.

I'm not as concerned about WHAT the indicator is (these are just some
examples) as I am that there BE one; simple and easy to remember so that
others would recognize it as such. That would help distinguish who is
intentionally stripping attributions and who is innocently using
unattributed ascii-art, not knowing who the artist is. 

OBUASCII: (OBligatory Unattributed ASCII art)

                      -.                       .-
                  _..-'(                       )`-.._
               ./'. '||\\.      _ _ /| ACK!  .//||` .`\.
            ./'.|'.'||||\\|..   \'o.O' /  ..|//||||`.`|.`\.
         ./'..|'.|| |||||\``````=(___)=''''''/||||| ||.`|..`\.
       ./'.||'.|||| ||||||||||||.  U  .|||||||||||| ||||.`||.`\.
      /'|||'.|||||| |||||||||||||     ||||||||||||| ||||||.`|||`\
     '.|||'.||||||| |||||||||||||     ||||||||||||| |||||||.`|||.`
    '.||| ||||||||| |/'   ``\||``     ''||/''   `\| ||||||||| |||.`
    |/' \./'     `\./         \!|\   /|!/         \./'     `\./ `\|
    V    V         V          }' `\ /' `{          V         V    V
    `    `         `               V               '         '    '

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