Re: Warning -- ASCII art and Netscape Messenger 5.0
From Peter Punk <ppu...@damnthatspam.hetnet.nl>
· alt.ascii-art
· 12 Nov 1999 00:00 · View full thread
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On Thu, 11 Nov 1999 12:54:08 +0100, "Christian 'CeeJay' Jensen" <REM...@CeeJay.findhere.com> provoked the following text: >> >BTW ... you asked for a way to detect ascii-art.(and i presented an idea to detect if it was >> >not ..any ways) >> >Here's an idea : >> >Any message sent to or from (that is a reply to) a newsgroup containing to word "ascii" is >> >ascii-art ! >> >That would catch alt.ascii-art - alt.ascii-art.animation - rec.arts.ascii and the >> >foreign ascii groups too. >> >The messenger should also be aware of this when sending to thoose groups. >> >That method seems pretty failsafe - I can't find any flaws in it. >> I can, i sometimes post ASCII-art to other groups if the subject is >> appropriate for that group. >> Or suppose a few of us decide to create a group called something like >> "alt.text-pix"? > >It was replace other other ascii-art tests ... >It was just meant to be an aid in finding out when it's ascii - not when it not ascii. I think you're going the wrong way around. How about this: If it's HTML, it's not ASCII-art. I know, it's a bad one because it would lead to an increase of posting in HTML in the groups. -- Peter Punk \ / ---\\\\--- / \ Virus detected! (P)our chicken soup on motherboard?
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,a634ddb4f5113d2a X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public From: ppu...@damnthatspam.hetnet.nl (Peter Punk) Subject: Re: Warning -- ASCII art and Netscape Messenger 5.0 Date: 1999/11/12 Message-ID: <nC4...@4ax.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 547593936 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <382...@student.canterbury.ac.nz> <382...@bucksch.org> <SVgnOLt4pTqkjt6WIUFpLf3=+p6...@4ax.com> <8091ca$gf5$1...@kujawiak.man.lodz.pl> <382...@bucksch.org> <80a1s9$c10$2...@news.inet.tele.dk> <gPApOOX=SiB...@4ax.com> <80ebuo$m8d$1...@news.inet.tele.dk> Organization: Total Disorganisation Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art
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