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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 27 Mar 1998.
Re: Pirates

Re: Pirates

>From: "``Gumby`` #0 @391" <wwi...@ppp.project.org>
>Date: Fri, Mar 6, 1998 09:00 EST
>Message-id: <350...@wwivbbs.org>

>�What is an AOL macro?
>What I understand it's like a script that captures "stuff" from a AOL site,
>AOL
>e-mail ect.. Used by Pirates & Porno Mongers mainly... 

No-- a "macro" is just AOLers name for a picture.
To make the pictures scroll in a chat room, they use
"Power Tools"... so the macro is entered into the program
and is run in the chat...

AOL's macro (pictures) are in Arial proportional font and
often use non-keyboard, non-ASCII characters.

-joan
-- 
      /\\        //\
      | \\      // |      -= it's a bad hare day =-
       \ \\    // /
        \ \\  // /               joan stark 
         \ '""' /            <spu...@juno.com>
         /__  __\
        (##/==\##)             ASCII ART GALLERY
        /   \/   \   <http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/7373/>
       =\   __   /=
    jgs  '-.__.-'
               

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From: spu...@aol.com (Spunk1111)
Subject: Re: Pirates
Date: 1998/03/27
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