X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fd588,e2f8ccbba5dd7f39 X-Google-Attributes: gidfd588,public X-Google-Thread: f996b,e2f8ccbba5dd7f39 X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1994-05-08 03:56:59 PST Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art.animation,alt.ascii-art Path: gmd.de!nntp.gmd.de!xlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!math.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!csn!cherokee!walter!news From: hacker@patagonia.bellcore.com (Jon Hacker) Subject: Re: Credits for animations Message-ID: Lines: 23 Sender: news@walter.bellcore.com Nntp-Posting-Host: nvc-slip3.cc.bellcore.com Organization: Bellcore X-Newsreader: LA Times for OS/2 [version: 3.3a] References: Date: Sat, 7 May 1994 15:08:48 GMT In message - Colin_Douthwaite@equinox.ge n.nz (Colin Douthwaite) writes: >May I also suggest that these uuencoded animation files might be >better placed in say alt.binaries.pictures.ascii with just a Pointer >in alt.ascii-art newsgroup annnouncing that the file has been >posted. > >The main disadvantage of alt.binaries.pictures.ascii is that many >Sites expire postings after 48 hours so postings can be missed. An >alternative group might possibly be alt.binaries.pictures.misc which >gets used by many newsgroups in the mainstream hierarchies that do >not know how to deal with Binary files. Binaries are not normally >acceptable in mainstream groups. I vote for continuing to post them here. First, this newsgroup has low traffic, and secondly the animations are typically small anyway. The people who have uploaded animations here have been pretty good about uuencoding them. Jon Hacker | OS/2 2.11 Bellcore | TCP/IP SLIP