Re: ASCII ART NOT LOOKING RIGHT? READ THIS!

On Sat, 15 Aug 1998 15:05:37 +1200, Matthew Thomas <mpt...@spamfree.land>
wrote:

>Colin Douthwaite wrote:
>> 
>> Matthew Thomas <mpt...@spamfree.land> wrote:
>> >
>> > Colin Douthwaite wrote:
>> > >...
>> > > Oh damn! Here we go again having to explain my jokes/messages/
>> > > Shafts of Wit etc. <sigh>
>> 
>> > That's not an HTML <sigh> I see there, is it Colin? Surely not ...
>> 
>> Yes it is but it was ASCII long before the HTMLists started using
>> the arrow brackets for control codes which apparently trigger
>> the underline function on some so-called newsreaders ( AOL has
>> that problem for one).
>
>I don't think that the idea of using < and > to enclose quasi-HTML tags
>) dates from before HTML. Before HTML, people used things like * (eg
>*grin*) and [] (eg [whispers]), and many people still do use these other
>ways of formatting their emotional expressions (along with emoticons
>:-).

Well I read and post to many newsgroups and from my earliest days on
the Net whenever <sigh> or <groan> were used (just those two expressions)
they always apperaed in the <> brackets. The other brackets were, and are
used in various ways but none of them specific as in the case of the
expressions <sigh> and <groan>. So I've always followed that format for
those two words and perhaps <howl>, <sob> and <sniffle> where (sob);
[sob]; or {sob} might not be so distinctive. 

The square brackets [ ] seem to be used for comments like [...snip...] or 
[ newsgroup line trimmed ]. 

The standard brackets ( ) look to be used as in conventional inclusions. 

[...snip...]

>> Nope, they post here almost every day AND every night...they just
>> enjoy posting kewl messages for the sake of posting something...who
>> cares what it is or how it looks?  It's fun fun fun, HeHeHe!

>Wow, and I thought that fun was the whole point of a.a-a ...

It depends who is having the fun.

Bye,

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