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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 11 Nov 1999.
Re: Warning -- ASCII art and Netscape Messenger 5.0

Re: Warning -- ASCII art and Netscape Messenger 5.0

On Tue, 9 Nov 1999 21:59:04 +0100, "Christian 'CeeJay' Jensen"
<REM...@CeeJay.findhere.com> provoked the following text:

>> > : Just leave emoticons alone and save yourself a lot of programming and
>> > : headache and us a lot of angryness (angryness is not the right word, but i
>> > : can't think of another. Sorry).
>> We have a pref to turn this off. We didn't decide yet, what will be the
>> default.
>Off - Definatly off

You have my support in this.

>> It wasn't my idea, but I think, it's funny to have graphical smilies.
>Yes , maybe for a few weeks - Then it start to get really old.
>But you could also just do colouring of the smiles.
>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"?
-- 
        Peter Punk
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          /    \

Cooperation can only be reached if we work together.

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From: ppu...@damnthatspam.hetnet.nl (Peter Punk)
Subject: Re: Warning -- ASCII art and Netscape Messenger 5.0
Date: 1999/11/11
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