Re: Warning -- ASCII art and Netscape Messenger 5.0

On 9 Nov 1999 11:43:06 GMT, Przemyslaw Brojewski <bro...@kis.p.lodz.pl>
provoked the following text:

>: It _could_ be done by requesting people posting ascii-art to precede their
>: art by some sort of tag like <ascii> </ascii>, but frankly, i don't think
>: ascii-artists would want to do that.
>
>Peter, please remember, that we really would appreciate if usenet 
>continued to be text/plain based medium. Your suggestion
>puts some structure around the text, and therefore is a first step
>towards binary postings. You would not want _that_ to happen, would you?

No i wouldn't, but i saw a possible solution to a problem.
As i said earlier, i don't think we can count on the cooperation of people
to surround their art with tags. At first it would be one tag, then two
and eventually we would end up having to use hundreds of tags, only to
make our stuff presentable.

I think it's bad enough that people post and mail in HTML, in fact, the
only time i want to see HTML is when i surf the net.

I also said that i am not a fan of the whole idea of detecting ascii-art.
This is because there _will_ be errors in detecting ascii-art.
-- 
        Peter Punk
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Manual Writer's Creed: Garbage in, gospel out.