X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,749a54616e5b2217 X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public From: mvcorks@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca (Matt Corks) Subject: Re: Apology to people who don't like my post. Date: 1996/08/15 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 174615166 sender: news@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca (news spool owner) references: <4ujhsp$fqj@dfw-ixnews9.ix.netcom.com> <3212144F.61CC@midwest.net> organization: None to speak of. newsgroups: alt.ascii-art Bill Risher wrote: >Sven Guckes wrote: >> (1) Post ASCII only! Don't post anything containing 8bit characters. >> (2) If you post compressed stuff then convert it to text before you post. >> (3) Don't post big stuff - put it up onto a web server and post the URL. >ummm,Sven,ascii contains 8-bit characters(like =DF) No, it doesn't. It never has. There are 2^7 = 128 ASCII characters, not 2^8 = 256. Your "=DF" is a MIME thing, since you posted with Netscape, and those of us who use VT 100 compatible terminals see garbage. Haven't you ever looked at an ASCII table? P.S.: Sven: I thought warlording alt.ascii-art .sig's was against the rules (a mark of Cain thing, you know)? Of course, you're right about the sig dashes... -- Matt Corks, 1B Co-Op PMath, C.S. mvcorks@uwaterloo.ca, http://www.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/u/mvcorks/ "Millport is an island off the coast of Scotland. Sometimes teenagers go there and take LSD." -The Vaselines, describing the song `The Day I Was A Horse'