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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 5 Jan 2000.
Re: Martians - email

Re: Martians - email

tobias koehler <tob...@sgpvt.at> wrote in message news:84v1rh$qt2$1...@scesie13.sie.siemens.at...
> JRO schrieb in Nachricht <84ur1h$bae$1...@nnrp1.deja.com>...

> > ___
> > _______ /__/|
> > /_____ /|| ||
> > || ||||[]||
> > ___|| ||||==||_________
> > / ||_____||||__|| /
> > / /_______\/|__|/ /\
> > / _________ /
> > / /=========/ /
> > / \__/___\__/_/ /
> > /____(__)___(__)____________/
> > // file://()\\ file://()\\ jro\\
> > // \\__// \\__// \ \\
> > //\\ //\\ \
> > |||| |||| "Success at last,
> > (_)(_) (_)(_) Tvhtyxz! We have

> Was this originally so distorted or is it just my news
> reader that deletes all spaces to the left?

It's a combination of non-ascii no-break spaces (&#160;) being used
in rows of two or more spaces, possibly automatically by deja.com or
by the Netscape browser, and of Outlook Express failing to display
those.  (Unless ISO 8859-1 is specified in the header, methinks.)

> Is it advisable to start each line with a non-space
> character to prevent this? (I had the same problem when
> I was reading news on a IBM 3090 - but I am under the
> impression that the percentage of mainframe users among
> those reading this has been going down during the last
> years ....)

Press Ctrl+F3 in OE.  It'll show you the readable source code.


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Subject: Re: Martians - email
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