Re: Outlook Express for Windows again

llizard wrote:
> .
>      ?!       the first dot in the top left corner is necessary
>  ^^^^%---     for applications other than OEfW at the beginning
>   "   \       of a post, but the sig shouldn't need any dots because
>               the first two -- indicating the sig should take care
>               of that problem.
> 
> Am I right?

The dot (or any other character for that matter, the dot is the least
obtrusive) in the top left corner is agreed upon, it is needed for many
applications, OEfW included.

However, unless OEfW is able to differentiate between a dot and the double
hyphen (and I doubt that OEfW is able to differentiate and willing to take
ascii sig precautions) then, when the sender sends out the sig below:
--
         ha     llizard aka ejm   cq5...@freenet.toronto.on.ca
 ^^^^%---  ha    http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Studios/9334/
  "   \ ha           ASCII-art, ASCII and gif animations

then OEFW may/will render it like this (purging the single space at the
beginning of a line, and leaving two or more spaces at the beginning of a line intact.)
--
         ha     llizard aka ejm   cq5...@freenet.toronto.on.ca
^^^^%---  ha    http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Studios/9334/
  "   \ ha           ASCII-art, ASCII and gif animations

The above distortion is not serious (I think,) but in my case, if I send out:
--
 .oo
(  -)
 " "
then OEfW may/will distort the pic like below, i.e. quite a bit:
--
.oo
(  -)   Help! Help! OEfW is doing naughty things to me!
" "

The suggested remedy is to place the leftmost character of an ascii pic/sig
two or more spaces away from the left hand side of the page, even after using
a dot or a double hyphen. That will hopefully make them OEfW proof. In case of
your sig, just move it to the right by one more space, then all of it will be
at least two spaces away from the left hand side of the page. In case of
Frogstein, I would need to move him two spaces to the right to make him OEfW
proof. (The other option is to use panels for pics/sigs as I do.)

(I hope people don't read this article with OEfW, because in that case, the
sample pics, designed to illustrate the difference, will look exactly the
same, i.e. with the exact same distortion.)

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