Re: proposal: alt.ansi-art
From Colin Douthwaite <cfb...@southern.co.nz>
· alt.ascii-art
· 8 Apr 1998 00:00 · View full thread
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Sysop <Mar...@momeraths.org> wrote: >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >In article <352...@isc-newsserver.isc.rit.edu> of alt.config, >Sun, 5 Apr 1998 21:18:51 -0400, "eric turevon" <ert...@rit.edu> wrote: >>For the past few years, nearly a decade, ansi has been a form of art among >>many computer users. Ansi art has numerous resources over the web, ftp >>sites, irc, etc... but none on uunet. A newsgroup for ansi art display, >>requests, etc... much like alt.ascii-art. To the eyes of ansi artists, >>there is a border between what constitutes a piece ansi or ascii art... we >>need a newsgroup for strictly ansi art. >Yet, back in the days when I cared, it was not unknown or frowned upon >to post ansi in alt.ascii-art, as long as it was labelled as such. And...provided it was uuencoded before posting. Nowadays ANSI art is less welcome in alt.ascii-art but mainly because posters have insisted on posting it "raw", often with colour, instead of encoding it. > How is alt.ascii-art doing these days, anyhow? Thriving...why not subscribe to alt.ascii-art and take a look sometime ? The leading modern-day artiste, Joan Stark, has just won a prestigious award from Geocities for her Ascii Art Website there. She has been granted free extra space on her website to house all her artwork. Bye,
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