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Original Usenet thread from alt.ascii-art, started 29 Jun 1997.
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Ascii art control codes

Ascii art control codes

alt.ascii-art · 2 messages · 29 Jun 1997 - 5 Jul 1997
Kathy Clements <kat...@imap2.asu.edu> 29 Jun 1997 00:00 · permalink · report 
Please help me, I want to have blinking or color text in my signature
file for use in Pine e-mail.  How to do it?
Kevin Kreamer <kre...@centraltx.net> ASCII art 5 Jul 1997 00:00 · permalink · report 
Kathy Clements wrote:
> 
> Please help me, I want to have blinking or color text in my signature
> file for use in Pine e-mail.  How to do it?

One of the biggest no-no's with ascii-art is the ascii control codes. 
Email is usually just plain text, and the extended ascii and control
codes (ie hold down Alt and type in a number) can crash some systems.  I
suggest that you just send plain text, or (if you must) HTML to the tune
of <blink>My Signature</blink>.  It doesn't AFAIK crash systems but it
does really annoy people.  I stress again, just send plain text.

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|__| .-------.  Kevin Kreamer
|=.| |.-----.|  <kre...@centraltx.net>
|--| || KCK ||  "There are no bugs, only unrecognized features."
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