proposal: alt.ansi-art

eric turevon <ert...@rit.edu> wrote:
>For the past few years, nearly a decade, ansi has been a form of art among
>many computer users.  Ansi art has numerous resources over the web, ftp
>sites, irc, etc... but none on uunet.  A newsgroup for ansi art display,
>requests, etc... much like alt.ascii-art.  To the eyes of ansi artists,
>there is a border between what constitutes a piece ansi or ascii art... we
>need a newsgroup for strictly ansi art.

>I and another moderator will moderate this group if created...

>me(eric): eri...@lotek.org
>ewheat: ans...@penis.com

>Thank you,

>Eric Turevon


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Ansi Art is very common on BBS Bulletin Boards and is used without 
any encoding so that the pictures are seen immediately.

Ansi Art posted to alt.* newsgroups would have to be uuencoded ( or 
mime encoded ) prior to posting and would need to be decoded by the 
user before viewing.  

Also it is usual practice to compress the Artwork into a Zip file 
before encoding to reduce the size of the posting.  

All this has to be done already with ASCII Art Animations which make 
use of Escape Codes to produce the animation. The animations are 
usually zipped, uuencoded and posted to the newsgroup 
alt.ascii-art.animation.

In the newsgroup alt.ascii-art newscomers are constantly reminded 
to uuencode anything that contains characters outside the allowable 
ascii character range:


Subject: WARNING: Control Codes
Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art,alt.ascii-art.animation


Subject: WARNING: Control Codes

===================================================================

                               WARNING        Revised 11 Jan 98

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*** HTML added ****


Control Codes:
-------------

PLEASE do *NOT* post Colour, Color, Control Codes, HTML or Animation 
Codes to ASCII-ART newsgroups - or indeed ANY Internet newsgroup.  

It can cause an awful lot of trouble on Net systems worldwide.

If you do wish to post Raw Code then UUENCODE it first !

Colour & Color Control Codes in subject titles and headers should be 
avoided entirely.  



Extended Character Set:
----------------------

The only Ascii characters which should be posted and used in Ascii
Art are:  
               Decimal characters   32 to 127.

The Extended Character Set of Decimal 128 to 255 made by using the 
Alt key, and used for ANSI pictures, must be UUENCODED before 
posting to the Net and should not be used in ASCII artwork pictures.  

The Decimal Characters 0 to 31 are control codes and should not
be used in ASCII artwork.




                Here is a chart of ascii characters:
                 [ provided by llizard 21/7/97 ]

  ----------------------------------------------------------------- 
 }|  No, no, no, MUSTN'T use these:                               |{
 }|                                                               |{
 }|  0 NUL|  1 SOH|  2 STX|  3 ETX|  4 EOT|  5 ENQ|  6 ACK|  7 BEL|{
 }|  8 BS |  9 HT | 10 NL | 11 VT | 12 NP | 13 CR | 14 SO | 15 SI |{
 }| 16 DLE| 17 DC1| 18 DC2| 19 DC3| 20 DC4| 21 NAK| 22 SYN| 23 ETB|{
 }| 24 CAN| 25 EM | 26 SUB| 27 ESC| 28 FS | 29 GS | 30 RS | 31 US |{
 }|       |                                                       |{
 }|---------------------------------------------------------------|{
 }| Yes, yes, yes, MUST use these:                                |{
 }|                                                               |{
 }| 32 SP | 33  ! | 34  " | 35  # | 36  $ | 37  % | 38  & | 39  ' |{
 }| 40  ( | 41  ) | 42  * | 43  + | 44  , | 45  - | 46  . | 47  / |{
 }| 48  0 | 49  1 | 50  2 | 51  3 | 52  4 | 53  5 | 54  6 | 55  7 |{
 }| 56  8 | 57  9 | 58  : | 59  ; | 60  < | 61  = | 62  > | 63  ? |{
 }| 64  @ | 65  A | 66  B | 67  C | 68  D | 69  E | 70  F | 71  G |{
 }| 72  H | 73  I | 74  J | 75  K | 76  L | 77  M | 78  N | 79  O |{
 }| 80  P | 81  Q | 82  R | 83  S | 84  T | 85  U | 86  V | 87  W |{
 }| 88  X | 89  Y | 90  Z | 91  [ | 92  \ | 93  ] | 94  ^ | 95  _ |{
 }| 96  ` | 97  a | 98  b | 99  c |100  d |101  e |102  f |103  g |{
 }|104  h |105  i |106  j |107  k |108  l |109  m |110  n |111  o |{
 }|112  p |113  q |114  r |115  s |116  t |117  u |118  v |119  w |{
 }|120  x |121  y |122  z |123  { |124  | |125  } |126  ~ |       |{
 }|---------------------------------------------------------------|{
 }| No, no, no, MUSTN'T use this one either:                      |{
 }|                                                       |127 DEL|{
  ----------------------------------------------------------------- 

           The ones you mustn't use are control codes.



====================================================================


Please do NOT post Colour & Color Control Codes in message headers 
and titles.  


     The problems are due to some Net software recognising the 
     Raw Code as commands which make the software do unwanted 
     things and can even cause a system to crash.  


====================================================================
This message is being reposted frequently because many newcomers
to the Net do not seem to know the problems caused by Control Codes 
used for Color, HTML, Animations etc.
====================================================================


       * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * 
       *                                                   *
       *        HTML, Mime, Java etc are not ASCII  !      *
       *                                 ^^^               *
       * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * 


Bye,

Sysop <Mar...@momeraths.org> wrote:
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>In article <352...@isc-newsserver.isc.rit.edu> of alt.config,
>Sun, 5 Apr 1998 21:18:51 -0400, "eric turevon" <ert...@rit.edu> wrote:
>>For the past few years, nearly a decade, ansi has been a form of art among
>>many computer users.  Ansi art has numerous resources over the web, ftp
>>sites, irc, etc... but none on uunet.  A newsgroup for ansi art display,
>>requests, etc... much like alt.ascii-art.  To the eyes of ansi artists,
>>there is a border between what constitutes a piece ansi or ascii art... we
>>need a newsgroup for strictly ansi art.

>Yet, back in the days when I cared, it was not unknown or frowned upon 
>to post ansi in alt.ascii-art, as long as it was labelled as such.

And...provided it was uuencoded before posting.

Nowadays ANSI art is less welcome in alt.ascii-art but mainly 
because posters have insisted on posting it "raw", often with colour, 
instead of encoding it.


> How is alt.ascii-art doing these days, anyhow?

Thriving...why not subscribe to alt.ascii-art and take a look sometime ?

The leading modern-day artiste, Joan Stark, has just won a prestigious award 
from Geocities for her Ascii Art Website there. She has been granted free
extra space on her website to house all her artwork.

Bye,