Settings

The page will reload to apply your changes.
Theme

ASCII Art Font

ASCII Art Menu

Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 1 Dec 1999.
Re: Tasmanian Devil

Re: Tasmanian Devil

.----- On 27 Nov 1999 14:10:53 GMT, Ilmari Karonen posted:
|<body bgcolor="#667711" text="#ffff00"><pre><blink><b><i><u><s>
|<font face="Matisse ITC,Westminster,Comic Sans MS" size="+7">
|
|On Fri, 26 Nov 1999 20:06:36 +0000, Ben Norwood (bdn...@aber.ac.uk) wrote:
|: On Yesterday, Martin Atkins wrote:
|: : But who cares what a program thinks? It's quite likely that anything reading
|: : a newsgroup that isn't a human is some kind of email address picker-upper.
|
|: And here's a simple reply designed to annoy all those with html-enabled
|: newsmanglers... :)
|
|..though only those that are actually broken enough to ignore the
|Content-Type header. If one really wanted to annoy people, one could
|mark the message as text/html instead. Of course, no-one here would
|even think of doing such a thing, right?
|
|And no, that isn't really mean. Really mean would be using JavaScript..
|
'----------------------------------------

... or using a multipart/mixed (OE-style) message with the HTML segment set
to:
<DIV STYLE="font-size: 50em;">GET A BETTER NEWSREADER</DIV>

that way anyone using that sort of newsreader, wouldn't be able to read the
message without looking at the message source :o)

That... or use VBScript and use the Windows Scripting Host WSHShell
object... umm... sorry - been done :o)

Kind Regards,
-Martin
|\/| _..__|_o._   /\_|_| o._  _   mart.atkins@--
|  |(_||  |_|| | /--\|_|<|| |_>            --bigfoot.com

Original message headers
X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit
X-Google-Thread: f996b,a0b1b9adcfa44920
X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public
From: zne...@ovtsbbg.pbz (Martin Atkins)
Subject: Re: Tasmanian Devil
Date: 1999/12/01
Message-ID: <384...@news.vossnet.net>#1/1
X-Deja-AN: 555429504
X-NNTP-Posting-Host: pool-163.vossnet.co.uk
References: <383...@news.mdc.net> <383...@t-online.de> <383...@news.vossnet.net> <Pine.GSO.4.20.9911262002420.7220-100000@xena> <81oopd$87g$1...@tron.sci.fi>
X-Complaints-To: abu...@cableinet.net
X-Trace: news1.cableinet.co.uk 944078705 29976 195.188.10.3 (1 Dec 1999 20:05:05 GMT)
Organization: Cable Internet (post doesn't reflect views of Cable Internet)
Reply-To: zne...@ovtsbbg.pbz
NNTP-Posting-Date: 1 Dec 1999 20:05:05 GMT
Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art

Related ASCII art in the Gallery

Explore these categories from our collection of 11,000+ artworks:

About this message. This message was posted publicly to the newsgroup alt.ascii-art in 1999 and is mirrored here unchanged as part of the Historic Archives – only email addresses are masked. The artwork and text belong to their original authors: if you copy a piece, keep the artist's initials or signature intact and credit them where you can. Are you the author? Contact us to get your posts attributed, connected to your artist profile, or removed.

Report this message

Help us keep the archive clean and accurate. Reports are reviewed by a person – nothing is changed automatically.

Help classify this post