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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 7 Nov 1999.
Re: Warning -- ASCII art and Netscape Messenger 5.0

Re: Warning -- ASCII art and Netscape Messenger 5.0

Matthew Thomas writes
>Howdy people, long time no see ... university is a tad busy these days.

>beginning of a line, and (b) turn the sequence of characters `//' into 
>`file://'.

>mail/news part of Mozilla 5.0 (from which Netscape Messenger 5.0 will be
>derived) do a similar thing.

>* assume that any non-white-space string with a `@' symbol in it is an
>  e-mail address, and turn it into a link

>* assume that any non-white-space string starting with `www.' is a Web
>  address, and turn it into a link

>* show anything surrounded by *asterisks* or /slashes/ in bold and
>  italic respectively (I've managed to convince them to leave the
>  asterisks and slashes there, instead of hiding them)

>* show :) or :-) as a smiley face graphic (which could be awful for some
>  ASCII art pictures).
>

                   //\                          //\
                _.//.@,._                    _*//*@*._
             .:` //.  @  `:.              .:`*//* *@* `:.
            :`  //.    @   `:            :` *//*   *@*  `:
           ::  //.      @   ::          :  *//*     *@*   :
          ::  //.        @   ::        :  *//*       *@*   :
       www.ww//w.w...@ww.www...www.ww//w.w...@ww.www
         :: //.            @  ::      : *//*           *@*  :
         ;://._   _  _ _    @ :;      ;*//* _  ___      *@* ;
          //.(_` / ` | |     @/       *//* |_)  |        *@*
         //'.,_) \_, | |   ..'@      *//*. |\_  |        .*@*
        //_  '-._-.....-_.-'  _@_.._*//*  '-._       _.-'  *@*
       """"      `'''''`      """"""""""      `'''''`      """

teehee

[][ see yuz
[][ colin
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Subject: Re: Warning -- ASCII art and Netscape Messenger 5.0
Date: 1999/11/07
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