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 06:01:56 PST Path: gmd.de!nntp.gmd.de!Germany.EU.net!EU.net!howland.reston.ans.net!news.cac.psu.edu!news.pop.psu.edu!psuvax1!news.cc.swarthmore.edu!raptor!ross From: ross@raptor.sccs.swarthmore.edu (Ross Dickson) Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art.animation,alt.ascii-art Subject: Re: Credits for animations Date: 6 May 1994 22:50:00 GMT Organization: Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA, USA Lines: 33 Message-ID: <2qehio$2jn@larch.cc.swarthmore.edu> References: <1994May2.125432.10997@emba.uvm.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: raptor.sccs.swarthmore.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Colin Douthwaite (Colin_Douthwaite@equinox.gen.nz) wrote: : Jacob L. Patterson (jpatters@moose.uvm.edu) wrote: [Stuff about reposting animations] : 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. One major problem with this plan, the alt.binaries.* groups are filtered out at many sites. For some reason, my site gets prefiltered groups so we do not even have the choice of getting any of the alt.binaries. BTW wasn't this group started so that there would be a group for posting animations? just my $0.02 -- ross dickson ------------------------------------ ross@raptor.sccs.swarthmore.edu rdickso1@cc.swarthmore.edu ------------------------------------ I am trying to learn motivation, but I just can't seem to get started.