Re: Warning -- ASCII art and Netscape Messenger 5.0

> If "turning text into a link" includes adding "file:" or some such
> rubbish, or in some other way corrupting the information in the message
> - NOT FINE!

I totally agree.

> > * show anything surrounded by *asterisks* or /slashes/ in bold and
> >   italic respectively (I've managed to convince them to leave the
> >   asterisks and slashes there, instead of hiding them)

> As long as the *characters* are all there, not more and not less, no
> problem.

Well i'd be slightly annoyed .. but i guess i could live with that.

> > * show :) or :-) as a smiley face graphic (which could be awful for some
> >   ASCII art pictures).
>
> THIS is corrupting the information! I had to use Word once (summer 98)
> and I HATED how it did that! (and I wasn't even trying to make a smiley!
> I had a colon followed by a parentheses, as part of a preformatted
> table. I think it had something to do with book prices, i.e. work stuff!
> not ascii art, and not a smiley! By the time somebody showed me where
> the control was to turn that off I had already found an alternative
> solution - NOTEPAD! (the WinNT version))

I myself only use plaintext wordproccesors .. for 90% of all my work.
Mostly Super Notetab , which i just recently found out has an convert to ascii option.. never
again nonascii pictures .. i can just convert and spot the errors instantly

> My server says "no such newsgroup"...   :(

I had more luck .. but you use deja can't you ?

> Programmers want to use newsgropus to discuss things, and include code
> examples in the text...

Don't i know it .. i frequently exchange code over the net

> Actually, I can think of one exception to this. There should be a
> setting to ignore sigs. Not that I'd use it (I'd rather have a setting
> to turn sigs green) but apparently there are a lot of people who like
> being able to do that.

I'd like to see an option to do ALLCAPS conversion to smallcaps .. SO YOU CAN AVOID THE
IRRITATING ALLCAPS MESSAGES .. DON'T YOU JUST HATE THOOSE !

- CJ

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