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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 6 May 1994.
Re: Credits for animations

Re: Credits for animations

Colin Douthwaite (Col...@equinox.gen.nz) wrote:
: Jacob L. Patterson (jpa...@moose.uvm.edu) wrote:

[Stuff about reposting animations]

: May I also suggest that these uuencoded animation files might be 
: better placed in say alt.binaries.pictures.ascii with just a Pointer 
: in alt.ascii-art newsgroup annnouncing that the file has been 
: posted.  

: The main disadvantage of alt.binaries.pictures.ascii is that many 
: Sites expire postings after 48 hours so postings can be missed. An 
: alternative group might possibly be alt.binaries.pictures.misc which 
: gets used by many newsgroups in the mainstream hierarchies that do 
: not know how to deal with Binary files. Binaries are not normally 
: acceptable in mainstream groups.  

One major problem with this plan, the alt.binaries.* groups are filtered out
at many sites. For some reason, my site gets prefiltered groups so we do not
even have the choice of getting any of the alt.binaries.

BTW wasn't this group started so that there would be a group for posting
animations?

just my $0.02

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ross dickson
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I am trying to learn motivation, but I just can't seem to get started.

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From: ros...@raptor.sccs.swarthmore.edu (Ross Dickson)
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Subject: Re: Credits for animations
Date: 6 May 1994 22:50:00 GMT
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