Original Usenet thread from alt.ascii-art, started 11 Sep 1999.
Deja News appears to be fixed
alt.ascii-art
· 12 messages · 11 Sep 1999 - 2 Oct 1999
I wrote a letter to DejaNews about the use of proportional fonts in the
archives. I got an autoresponse back shortly afterwards thanking me for
my suggestion. I figured that it was a lost cause.
However, I just did a power search using the following URL
http://www.deja.com/=dnc/[ST_rn=ps]/home_ps.shtml
I'm happy to report that alt.ascii-art posts are back in a fixed width
font.
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In article <37D...@iNOdirect.ca>, llizard wrote: > > I wrote a letter to DejaNews about the use of proportional fonts in the > archives. I got an autoresponse back shortly afterwards thanking me for > my suggestion. I figured that it was a lost cause. > > However, I just did a power search using the following URL > http://www.deja.com/=dnc/[ST_rn=ps]/home_ps.shtml > > I'm happy to report that alt.ascii-art posts are back in a fixed width > font. . ___ _/ | |_____| ,^> Well, it WAS fixed for a second or two... --- == ---% / > [_____] / /__>,^ ejm | | //| | So much for successful letter writing. I guess it's back to using Andreas Freise's search... http://www.ascii-art.de/ascii/ocollections.html ' : ....: : : : : Search (only!) the Ascii archives of DejaNews here! Just type : some words or names for a description. : _______________________ : [_______________________] [FIND] |) [ _| /\ |\| [ \,/ _< : _ _ : Keywords matched: (_) All (_) Any :.............................................. NOTE: I rarely pick up my mail from the idirect address. If you are e-mailing and hit the reply button, add an "e" to "freent"; its absense is to stop the torment of automatic mailers. -- llizard aka ejm cq547@freene+.+oron+o.on.ca ,^ ASCII-ar+ and ASCII-anima+ions ===%^^7^^^^7^^^^ http://www.crosswinds.net/~llizard/
> ___ > _/ | > |_____| ,^> Well, it WAS fixed for a second or two... > --- == ---% / > > [_____] / /__>,^ > ejm | | //| | > For some reason I always think he's playing the piano. >: Search (only!) the Ascii archives of DejaNews here! Just type >: some words or names for a description. >: _______________________ >: [_cool pix______________] [FIND]. |) [ _| /\ |\| [ \,/ _< >: _ _ |\ <clik> >: Keywords matched: (_) All (x) Any \ >:.............................................. It didn't work. m�spher. "Your wealth of knowledge astounds me. I can not fit any more information in my brain." *pop* -- Per.
In article <37e6f096.88990140@90.0.0.1>, jta...@NOSPAMatt.net (m�spher (JT)) wrote: > > > ___ > > _/ | > > |_____| ,^> Well, it WAS fixed for a second or two... > > --- == ---% / > > > [_____] / /__>,^ > > ejm | | //| | > > > > For some reason I always think he's playing the piano. Oh my no! That is far too small. _______ / | / | ___/ | / | / / |_ \,^%--- (_______________|_\ \/< \ THIS is a piano! |__________________|_ > . )( )( | __>| )( ejm )( |: //| | I lowered the post so it won't be so loud. But ______ / | _____/ | / ha / |_ \,^^%--- ha consider yourself lucky (_______________|_\ _/< \ ha that you can't hear |__________________|_ __>^^ what this sounds like! )( )( | //| | )(ejm )( |: (I play very badly....) NOTE: I rarely pick up my mail from the idirect address. If you are e-mailing and hit the reply button, add an "e" to "freent"; its absense is to stop the torment of automatic mailers. -- ___ ha cq547@freene+.+oron+o.on.ca _/ | ,^%--- ha llizard aka ejm |_____| __<_ \ ha This looks like a --- == >/ computer from here! [_____] __>,^ ejm| | //| | http://www.crosswinds.net/~llizard/
llizard wrote: > > In article <37e6f096.88990140@90.0.0.1>, jta...@NOSPAMatt.net > (míspher (JT)) wrote: > > >... > > For some reason I always think he's playing the piano. Oh, this argument again ... :-) > Oh my no! That is far too small. >... > ___ ha cq547@freene+.+oron+o.on.ca > _/ | ,^%--- ha llizard aka ejm > |_____| __<_ \ ha This looks like a > --- == >/ computer from here! > [_____] __>,^ > ejm| | //| | http://www.crosswinds.net/~llizard/ I think the main problem is that the monitor looks too wide to be a monitor -- are you using a narrow font, llizard? How about this? __ _/ | __% |____| /<_ Oooh look ... mt-1 _)_( _/>/ this one's got keys! after[____`. __>,^ ejm | | //| | 'Course, if you were really stylee, you'd be using one of these things: _ ^^ .md8[ __% /"*88| /< Yeeee-haaaaa. mt-1 `.___].__ _/> after --------- __>,^ ejm | | //| | ... llizard different.(TM) taraa -- Matthew `mpt' Thomas http://critique.net.nz/
In article <37E...@student.canterbury.ac.nz>, Matthew Thomas <mpt...@student.canterbury.ac.nz> wrote: > > llizard wrote: > > > > In article <37e6f096.88990140@90.0.0.1>, jta...@NOSPAMatt.net > > (m�spher (JT)) wrote: > > > > >... > > > For some reason I always think he's playing the piano. > > Oh, this argument again ... :-) > > > Oh my no! That is far too small. > >... > > ___ ha cq547@freene+.+oron+o.on.ca > > _/ | ,^%--- ha llizard aka ejm > > |_____| __<_ \ ha This looks like a > > --- == >/ computer from here! > > [_____] __>,^ > > ejm| | //| | http://www.crosswinds.net/~llizard/ > > I think the main problem is that the monitor looks too wide to be a > monitor -- are you using a narrow font, llizard? > > How about this? > __ > _/ | __% > |____| /<_ Oooh look ... > mt-1 _)_( _/>/ this one's got keys! > after[____`. __>,^ > ejm | | //| | > [snip] > Matthew `mpt' Thomas > http://critique.net.nz/ . ,---~ ha \_,^%--- ha /> \ ha That looks like something in a carnival mirror! ____/ > (#&*o) > '--~ /|^^ ejm | \ Just pin the odd size of the computer down to artistic licence. See? I do have one: __________________________________ | /| /| | O f f i c i a l | | /~|/~| |_ Ascii Artist Licence | | < /\ |\| /\ |> /\ | | ......... iss: Nov95 exp: n/a | | : : name: ejm | | : ===%^ : aka: llizard | | : : occ: ne'er-do-well | | ......... addr: Toronto, Ont | | e-mail: cq547@+orfree.ne+ | | URL: www.crosswinds.net/~llizard/| |__________________________________| and to be on-topic, obasciipiano: ____ | | \ | | \________ _|_|____________) /| / | __________) ||__ /____|,' ________| |/_/| _|_______,' )( | | :|)( ejm )( )( NOTE: I rarely pick up my mail from the idirect address. If you are e-mailing and hit the reply button, add an "e" to "freent"; its absense is to stop the torment of automatic mailers. -- ___ cq547@freene+.+oron+o.on.ca _/ | ,^%--- llizard aka ejm |_____| __<_ \ or maybe I'm just much smaller --- == >/ than the computer... [_____] __>,^ ASCII-ar+ and ASCII-anima+ions ejm| | //| | http://www.crosswinds.net/~llizard/
llizard wrote in message news:37E...@iNOdirect.ca... > _______ > / | > / | > ___/ | > / | / > / |_ \,^%--- > (_______________|_\ \/< \ > |__________________|_ > . > )( )( | __>| > )( ejm )( |: //| | > Wow llizard! Thats a huge computer monitor you've got there! ;-)
On Sun, 26 Sep 1999 20:39:54 +0100, "Andrew Carpenter" <new...@gloucestershire.freeserve.co.uk> provoked the following text: >> > I'm happy to report that alt.ascii-art posts are back in a fixed width >> > font. >> ___ >> _/ | >> |_____| ,^> Well, it WAS fixed for a second or two... >> --- == ---% / > >> [_____] / /__>,^ >> ejm | | //| | > >Just looking around Deja for a moment, and noticed that anything under a >dash-dash-space sig separator is written in a fixed width font. > >Could cause other problems though. Only if _you_ want to :-) -- Peter Punk \ / ---\\\\--- / \ The true diplomat struts sitting down
ppu...@damnthatspam.hetnet.nl (Peter Punk) writes: > > On Sun, 26 Sep 1999 20:39:54 +0100, "Andrew Carpenter" > <new...@gloucestershire.freeserve.co.uk> provoked the following text: > > > >Just looking around Deja for a moment, and noticed that anything under a > >dash-dash-space sig separator is written in a fixed width font. > > > >Could cause other problems though. > > Only if _you_ want to :-) Or if the recipients Newsreader wants to. "newline space space blank newline" is the official sign for "begin of sig block". Various Newsreaders (and Mailers) treat text after it different: Such as showing it in an dimmed colour (as mine does), not auto-quoting it on pressing relpy/followup (as I have seen others do). So putting your message after it screws up readers - Bad idea. BTW: Leaving someone elses -- in an quoted message messes up all your text after it. And putting an quoted message entirely after your -- (this violates temporal arrangement anyway) screws up the entire quote. Both are the sign of an not yet clued up newbie (who may well be an eternal newbie with many years online). -- Neil Franklin, nei...@franklin.ch.remove http://neil.franklin.ch/
On 28 Sep 1999 20:20:21 +0200, Neil Franklin <nei...@franklin.ch.remove> provoked the following text: >> >Just looking around Deja for a moment, and noticed that anything under a >> >dash-dash-space sig separator is written in a fixed width font. >> >Could cause other problems though. >> Only if _you_ want to :-) >Or if the recipients Newsreader wants to. Nope, in this case, Andrew wanted it. Or at least, he tried it :-)) >Various Newsreaders (and Mailers) treat text after it different: >Such as showing it in an dimmed colour (as mine does), not >auto-quoting it on pressing relpy/followup (as I have seen others do). And so does Forte Agent, but there is a workaround: Select the whole message and press "F" to reply in the group of press "R" to reply by email. >So putting your message after it screws up readers - Bad idea. I know, that's why my sig is placed after my message. >BTW: Leaving someone elses -- in an quoted message messes up all your >text after it. And putting an quoted message entirely after your -- >(this violates temporal arrangement anyway) screws up the entire quote. Yeah, i hate when that happens. >Both are the sign of an not yet clued up newbie (who may well be an >eternal newbie with many years online). <g> I know a few... -- Peter Punk \ / ---\\\\--- / \ Does the name 'Pavlov' ring a bell?
On Thu, 30 Sep 1999 01:56:39 +0200, ppu...@damnthatspam.hetnet.nl (Peter Punk) wrote in message <LpL...@4ax.com>: >>Various Newsreaders (and Mailers) treat text after it different: >>Such as showing it in an dimmed colour (as mine does), not >>auto-quoting it on pressing relpy/followup (as I have seen others do). > >And so does Forte Agent, but there is a workaround: >Select the whole message and press "F" to reply in the group of press "R" >to reply by email. Easier way: Click in the message pane, press <CTRL>+<A> then click the appropriate button to reply. Try it! m�spher. "A purulent haemmorhage of saline excreta doth cast down the visage of the whore." Was translated by the software as: "My mother was crying." http://www.holeinthewall.com/ic_death.htm
On Fri, 01 Oct 1999 02:23:26 GMT, jta...@SPAMBLEDEGGSatt.net (m�spher (JT)) provoked the following text: >>>Various Newsreaders (and Mailers) treat text after it different: >>>Such as showing it in an dimmed colour (as mine does), not >>>auto-quoting it on pressing relpy/followup (as I have seen others do). >>And so does Forte Agent, but there is a workaround: >>Select the whole message and press "F" to reply in the group of press "R" >>to reply by email. >Easier way: >Click in the message pane, press <CTRL>+<A> then click the appropriate >button to reply. Try it! That's the same as i just said, only difference is that i assumed that everyone knows what Ctrl+A does. -- Peter Punk \ / ---\\\\--- / \ Man wanted to work in dynamite factory. Must be willing to travel.
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