JOIN alternative ascii arts webring!

Since Yahoo! took over the ASCII Art Ring, they've
begun using it to promote themselves.  Their interface
design is ugly, their navigator isn't exclusively ASCII,
and there are advertisements.   Since decentralization was
one of the goals of Web Rings when they originally became
popular, it is unfortunate that the existing rings are now
under the influence of one of the largest portal companies.

I took it upon myself to write software to support
a web ring to replace the ASCII Art Ring.  

* no advertising, no fees, non-profit
* the interface is text only
* the "button bar" is unobtrusive

If you have a site featuring ASCII art, I encourage you to 
register and join this ring.

http://artcode.org/ascii/

A.C.D.

I'm not joining any ascii art ring that doesn't include a rule about
keeping the artists initials (or other copyright sort of thing) on
their work. Why haven't you done this? Do you not care about ripped
off ascii art? Or don't you even know about it?

I've seen you posting about your ring several times yet you've never
done anything about adding this rule to the ascii ring guidelines.
Whatever you have to say against the ascii ring at Yahoo at least they
do care enough to check the websites that want to join. 

Laura

On Wed, 03 Oct 2001 18:06:10 -0400, Andy Deck
<noi...@netscape.net> wrote:

>Since Yahoo! took over the ASCII Art Ring, they've
>begun using it to promote themselves.  Their interface
>design is ugly, their navigator isn't exclusively ASCII,



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